Top 40 Sarah Mlynowski Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “No one was perfect. But we all did the best we could. I guessed you had to forgive when you could, move on when you couldn’t, and love your family and friends for who they were instead of punishing them for who they weren’t.”

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2. “I always work from an outline.”

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3. “They write songs about California girls for a reason.”

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4. “We’re all crazy. What’s your specific form of crazy?”

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5. “How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck chlamydia?”

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6. “There’s a lid for every pot.”

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7. “We don’t have clairvoyance or precognition. At least, I don’t. Does anyone else?” “I don’t even know what those mean,” Jordana said. “Telepathy is when you can hear other people’s thoughts. Clairvoyance is when you are aware of something happening in another location. Precognition is when you can tell the future. And then there’s telekinesis, which is when you can move objects with your mind.” “No, I’m just having the first one,” Tess said.”

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8. “Sometimes you don’t need lightning to start a fire. Sometimes, it builds on its own.”

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9. “Normal is boring. Who wants that?”

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10. “A friendship can’t survive on childhood memories alone. We have to create new experiences, or the friendship will shrivel up.”

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11. “I wonder-maybe the key is balance. Maybe it’s about living in the moment while still keeping your eye on the big picture-on all the pictures.”

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12. “Really?” I say. “Hmm. I guess it’s possible that she’s not home. It’s not nighttime yet. The original story doesn’t take place until tomorrow, so she might not even be around right now. She could be out luring children with bubble gum or something.”

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13. “She named her horse Basil? That’s the worst name for a horse I ever heard.”

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14. “We find our way to the marble kitchen, open the fancy silver fridge, and serve ourselves a heaping plate of coleslaw and chicken fingers. “Mmm,” I say. Prince makes sloppy eating sounds. “Delicious,” says Jonah. He smiles at Frederic. “Tastes just like frog legs.” I laugh so hard I snort coleslaw out of my nose.”

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15. “I’m a pretty good dancer,” Lion says. “Do you want to see me Floss?” “No,” she says, frowning. “Flossing will not help you save your friends and defeat the witches!” She is clearly exasperated. “I can do the Macarena,” Tin Man adds. The guardian sighs and shakes her head. “Save the Wizard first. Then get your friends. Then you can practice your dance moves.”

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16. “Let’s call the prince – ” “Ruff, ruff!” “Pickles!” Jonah cries gleefully. My brother is so weird.”

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17. “You don’t really have to fallin love with him, but he’s not a terrible option for a fling. As long as you use a condom. Two condoms, even.”

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18. “It’s just not fair. And things need to be fair. Judges make things fair, and so will I.”

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19. “Such a sensitive dog. Or maybe he just needs to go outside for other reasons.”

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20. “We were not always freaks. Sure, most of us occasionally exhibited freakish behaviour. But that’s not the same thing.”

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21. “I love you: You imagine hearing the words from someone not related to you, someone not your best friend, but when someone you love, someone you dream about, actually says them, it makes your body melt and your breath get caught in your chest.”

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22. “Just because a relationship ends, it doesn’t mean it’s not worth having.”

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23. “He knew he was sounding a little Holden Caulfield-esque calling everyone a phony, but he really did think everyone was a phony.”

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24. “A guy who treats his mom well, treats his wife well.”

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25. “Department, 557 Broadway, New York, NY 10012.”

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26. “When I get married I’m going to make the marriage work. Getting married is forever, no matter what my spouse does.”

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27. “I know a song that gets on everybody’s nerves, everybody’s nerves, everybody’s nerves – ” “I’m going to.”

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28. “Yup, believe it: I was born on March 28, yet my name is April.”

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29. “Biological clock? I don’t even own a watch.”

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30. “Liking someone doesn’t make you weak.”

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31. “Just to make sure it wasn’t cancer. Or a heart attack. Or lymphangioleiomyomatosis. Which, sure, only affected one out of a million people, but it started with a cough, and if you were the one out of a million, then you were done-like-dinner within the year.”

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32. “I think we – well, I – messed up the story.”

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33. “When you go on vacation with people, you learn a lot about them.”

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34. “The school didn’t want us mixing with the rest of the senior class. Which was ridiculous. We had ESP, not Ebola. A curriculum had been tailored just for us, to help us prepare for what lay ahead. Not that anyone knew what lay ahead. It’s not like there had ever been an entire class of telepaths before. Yup.”

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35. “We were not always freaks. Sure, most of us occasionally exhibited freakish behavior. But that’s not the same thing. This is the story of how we became freaks. It’s how a group of Is became a we.”

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36. “Dad? Um, listen. I have kind of a crazy story for you...”

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37. “Funny how life messed with you.”

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38. “Couldn’t he have checked his shoelaces BEFORE entering a dark, super-creepy cave?”

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39. “She said people found running to something easier than running from something.”

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40. “She looks at me strangely. “Um, no. I’m frozen.”

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41. “Why?” Pi asked. “What are your secret thoughts?” “Nothing,” Mackenzie blurted out. Don’t think about it, don’t think about it. Tess shook her head. She doesn’t want the whole school knowing she cheated on Cooper. Aha. “Tess!” Mackenzie yelled. Tess clamped her hand over her mouth. “I’m sorry! I didn’t mean to think it!”

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42. “Do you think she’s still here?” Jonah asks.”

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43. “You can tell a lot about a person not just by their successes, but by how they deal with their setbacks.”

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44. “A teenage girl wearing a loose blue dress is sitting in a wooden chair with her back to me. Her beautiful, dark brown hair is pulled back in a braid that trails all the way down her back, over the chair, and out the window.”

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45. “We keep a safe distance. We only whisper. We duck into the shadows whenever Cinderella turns around. We’re really good at this sneaky thing. I bet we could be spies when we grow up. We’d be the cool brother-and-sister team that gets to go to exotic.”

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46. “You’ll get hurt!” But she doesn’t listen. She jumps straight out the window. “Wheeee!” she yells as she flies down. She lands on the Frau-Monster, knocking her down, and then bounces into the thorns by the tower as though Frau were a trampoline.”

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