Wendy Mass citations

“The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.”

“When I was your age I knew nothing about the world or my place in it. I figured I'd be someone's wife, then someone's mother. It never occurred to me to be someone myself.”

“It's not an old book, or a treasure map. Nope. Staring up at me was a pile of rocks.”

“You take the flotsam," I tell her, "I'll take the jetsam."
You always get the jetsam,"she says pretending to pout. "Do you ever think if poeple heard our conversations they'd lock us up?"
All the time.”

“Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?"
All the time.”

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.”

“I am not plain, or average or - God forbid - vanilla. I am peanut butter rocky road with multicolored sprinkles, hot fudge and a cherry on top.”

“When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it.”

“If nothing ever changed, there would be no such things as butterflies.”

“Nothing nice you ever do for anyone is for no reason.”

“The people on the train with me don't know it, but in my head I'm dancing.”

“They say the eyes are the window to the soul.”

“A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.”

“The sidelines may be safer but life is played on the field”

“I'm going to tell you a secret. Our lives are shaped by the future, not by the past. Once you decide how you want your life to be, all you need to do is live into that future.”

“Whereever you end up;" Jack whispered into my ear."I wish you clear skies. Always”

“I bet if you go through the rest of your life telling yourself, "I'm sparkling," you'll have a whole different energy and experience.”

“Everyone thinks I named my cat Mango because of his orange eyes, but that's not the case. I named him Mango because the sounds of his purrs and his wheezes and his meows are all various shades of yellow-orange.”

“You never know, life is short but it’s wide”

“Life is short… eat desert first!”

“Whoa!" she says as I plow into her. " What are you DOING? Get off me!" I hang on tight. "Can't a girl just hug her big sister?" She stops fighting me. "Are you dying? Am I dying? Did Grandma die? I laugh. "No one died." "Then get off!”

“The thing about leaving something behind for the last time is that you rarely realize you're doing it.”

“Sometimes the best things look the strangest.”

“I've learned that everyone can do their part to repair the world”

“Reach for the stars and even if you miss you will land among the stars”

“The oversized chairs are white; the walls, covered with occasional landscape paintings, are white; and the plush carpet is the whitest of all. I'm insanely glad I didn't bring a cup of grape juice with me.”

“Just as I suspected, my room does look different, post-eclipse. It looks smalled, like it can't contain me anymore.
After all, I've got a whole new world to see.”

“If everyone waited to do something good until they had purely unselfish motivations, no good would ever get done in the world. The point is to do it anyway.”

“It's a date," Leo repeats, and we shake on it. Leo's mother sticks her head in the door. "You guys are too young to be dating!"
"Mom!"Leo cries, turning bright red.”