Top 35 Cynthia Lord Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Just this once, let it be easy.”

— Cynthia Lord

2. “Stay because you want to be here. Stay because we would miss you. And stay because you can belong in more than one place, and one of your places is with us.”

— Cynthia Lord

3. “Good things matter, even when they don’t last forever.”

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4. “Looking closer can make something beautiful.”

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5. “Sometimes people don’t answer because they didn’t hear you, Other times it’s because they don’t want to hear you!”

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6. “Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.”

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7. “Some people think they know who you are, when really they don’t.”

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8. “It hurts how life goes on, unknowing.”

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9. “I wish everyone had the same chances,” I say. “Because it stinks a big one that they don’t.” – Catherine.”

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10. “Sometimes I wish someone would invent a pill so David’d wake up one morning without autism, like someone waking from a long coma, and he’d say, “Jeez, Catherine, where have I been?”

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11. “Giving up and letting go are too very different things, Lily. Giving up is admitting you’re beat and walking away. Letting go means you’re setting something free. You’re releasing something that’s been keeping you stuck. That takes faith and more than a little courage” -Pepere.”

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12. “It’s hard to think of anything being gone forever. Most things that go come back again, even if they’re a little different when they return. But not always, and when something has gone forever, it can hurt so much you start wondering if it would’ve been easier if you’d never had it at all.”

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13. “It’s easy to remember only the good parts of people if you never see them. Real people are much more complicated.”

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14. “People say it’s better to know the truth, but what if the ending’s a bad one? Is it still better to know? Or is it kinder to keep that string of hope dangling? To believe that maybe if you just wait long enough, everything could still end the way you want.”

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15. “Sometimes life is like a long road leading from one “if” to another.”

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16. “Maybe when we see things all the time, we stop really looking at them. And it takes an artist, someone who can look past the ordinariness, to remind us how special they really are” -Lily.”

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17. “If you say something over and over and over, maybe they’ll give in to shut you up.”

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18. “Don’t ever choose the people who don’t matter over the ones that do.”

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19. “Fifth graders are independent, have a great sense of humor, and are wonderful problem solvers. They are compassionate and care deeply about things.”

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20. “What I love about art is that anything is possible. Bees can be pink. Trees can be purple. It’s like taking the world as it is and then swirling it around to show how it could be” -Salma.”

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21. “If you can get people to care about the little things, they’ll care about the big things, too.”

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22. “It’s a powerful thing to rescue something. It changes both of you.”

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23. “Just because other people think something, that doesn’t make it true. Maybe there’s some truth in that, but it’s unsatisfying, bitter-tasting truth.”

— Cynthia Lord

24. “Why can’t the world be simpler, like it is for guinea pigs? They only have a few rules: Crying will get you attention. If it fits in your mouth, it’s food. Scream if you don’t get your share.”

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25. “It must take some courage to fly, to trust the wind to hold you as it lifts you away from all you’ve ever known. To know inside that you’re heading where you’re meant to go – even if you’ve never been there before. And that ‘I hope so’ will be enough to get you there.”

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26. “No toys in the fish tank.”

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27. “Wishes are slippery things. You have to be very specific or you can get exactly what you wished for and still end up with nothing.”

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28. “I was feeling a bit scared, and I realized something. To do brave things, you don’t have to be hugely brave. You only have to be a little bit braver than you are scared.” -Lily.”

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29. “When someone is upset, it’s not a good time to bring up your own problems.”

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30. “At some point, you just have to choose. And then be brave enough to stand up to the people who think you made the wrong choice.”

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31. “One thing I know about being in a three-way friendship is that you’d better not let the other two spend too much time without you, or it turns into a two-way friendship, minus you.”

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32. “Good-bye isn’t the worst thing in the world. Sometimes it’s simply time to go.”

— Cynthia Lord

33. “Maybe it’s kinder not to remember, because you don’t have to grieve.”

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34. “Even half a chance beats none.”

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35. “As we continued upward, I thought about how adults sometimes complain that kids only think about ourselves, but it’s not true. We care a lot about other people, but most times, we don’t have the power to change things for them.”

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36. “But that’s the one thing about being blind. What you look like doesn’t matter to Lucky. He sees you with his heart” -Lily.”

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