Courtney Sheinmel > Quotes

“Do you love me to the top of my head?" I'd ask. "Higher," Mom would say. "Do you love me to the top of that tree?" "Even higher." "Do you love me to the roof? " "Higher than that." "How high do you love me?" I'd finally ask, and Mom would say, "I love you to the sky.”
― Courtney Sheinmel, Positively

“People were like icebergs. There was so much more than you could see. Everyone had secrets below the surface.”
― Courtney Sheinmel, Edgewater

“Perhaps there is a predetermined time for each person's life, and we should be happy for the time we had.”
― Courtney Sheinmel, Edgewater

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.”
― Courtney Sheinmel, Stella Batts Needs a New Name

“had said happened when you broke a mirror—seven years of bad luck.”
― Courtney Sheinmel, Stella Batts: Scaredy Cat

“I have some good news for you. I found your dog.”
― Courtney Sheinmel, Who's in Charge

“Stella.”
― Courtney Sheinmel, A Case of the Meanies

“the”
― Courtney Sheinmel, Stella Batts Needs a New Name

“calm down,” Mrs. Finkel told Joshua. Mr. O’Neil is”
― Courtney Sheinmel, A Case of the Meanies

“Ooh, this weekend, the sun will shine. We’ll walk down the aisle in a straight line!”
― Courtney Sheinmel, Stella Batts: Something Blue

“I wish I could tell you about the mayor of our class, Mrs. Finkel. But she didn’t want me to. I scrunched up the paper. She’d probably get mad about that. I’d read about the heat wave in the paper that morning. That affected my life because it was hot.”
― Courtney Sheinmel, Stella Batts: None of Your Beeswax

“conversation—probably my only conversation—with Superstar Sam was about the things I hadn’t done.”
― Courtney Sheinmel, Superstar

“Bella had gone to the bathroom,”
― Courtney Sheinmel, Who's in Charge

“name.”
― Courtney Sheinmel, A Case of the Meanies

“You were looking down at your desk,” Joshua”
― Courtney Sheinmel, A Case of the Meanies

“We’re going to the dog park.”
― Courtney Sheinmel, Who's in Charge

“Mom”
― Courtney Sheinmel, Stella Batts Needs a New Name

“Mommy was pregnant with you. We were so excited because we were about to have our very first baby. We didn’t know if you would be a boy or a girl, so we had two names picked out.” “Nicole for a girl and Andrew for a boy,” I said. “Exactly right,” Dad said. “But then you were born and the nurse asked us for a name for the birth certificate. Mom and I looked at you and we both thought the same thing.”
― Courtney Sheinmel, Stella Batts Needs a New Name

“even the smallest act can have big consequences, like a butterfly flapping its wings on one side of the world can set off a chain of events resulting in a hurricane on the other side of the world.”
― Courtney Sheinmel, The Survival List

“effort was”
― Courtney Sheinmel, Sincerely, Sophie; Sincerely, Katie

“Excuse”
― Courtney Sheinmel, Stella Batts: Something Blue

“Stella,’ and that’s pretty close to ‘Bella.”
― Courtney Sheinmel, Who's in Charge

“Cheerios”
― Courtney Sheinmel, Who's in Charge

“Bella was gone!!! Oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no!!!”
― Courtney Sheinmel, Who's in Charge

“Bella’s missing?”
― Courtney Sheinmel, Who's in Charge

“Bella could stay at my house,”
― Courtney Sheinmel, Who's in Charge

“Oh, brussels sprout, I love you so much. I wish I had more of you.” Maybe brussels sprouts taste different in Penny’s mouth than in mine.”
― Courtney Sheinmel, Pardon Me

“Here’s something I’ve learned: Cleaning up ALWAYS takes more time than making the mess does.”
― Courtney Sheinmel, Pardon Me

“When the going gets tough, the tough get going.”
― Courtney Sheinmel, Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

“Oops, I mean dollars.”
― Courtney Sheinmel, Superstar