Stephanie

“Well, no one says you can be happy about everything," I said. "I know I should be glad for you, Megan, but frankly I think you're crazy. And if Reverend Marshall is making you this way, I think he's evil. This life, this everyday existence, is the one gift we're given. To throw it away, to want to be dead, to me that's the sin.”
― Susan Beth Pfeffer, Life As We Knew It

“Someone should pay for their sins.
I'll show you Awful, humans.
I can't even see what I'm doing. All I know is rage, and panic, and darkness.”
― Rachel Cohn, Beta

“When I'm in the water I feel as though nothing bad has happened. I think about the fish, how they don't know what's going on. Their world is unchanged. Actually it's probably better now to be a tuna or a sardine or a salmon. Less chance of ending up as somebody's lunch.”
― Susan Beth Pfeffer, Life As We Knew It

“Some people find it comfortable to go through life on their knees, and good luck to them, but I prefer to keep my spine in the position nature intended.”
― Beryl Bainbridge, Master Georgie