Amy Krouse Rosenthal Quotes

• “cozy+smell of pancakes-alarm clock=weekend”

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• “Just look at us, all of us, quietly doing our thing and trying to matter. The earnestness is inspiring and heartbreaking at the same time.”

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• “I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around.”

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• “To get a true sense of the book, I have to spend a few moments inside. I'll glance at the first couple pages, then flip around to somewhere in the middle, see if the language matches me somehow. It's like dating, only with sentences......It could be something as simple yet weirdly potent as a single word (tangerine). We're meant to be, that sentence and me. And when it happens, you just know.”

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• “It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.”

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• “If you want to grow up to be a big, strong pea, you have to eat your candy," Papa Pea would say.”

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• “I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.”

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• “My brother, who grew up with three sisters, was I won't say how many years old when he finally realized that he did not have to wrap the towel around his chest when he came out of the shower.”

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• “On the occasions where we do have to participate, to do more than nothing, it is desirable to have a glass of wine to soften all the everything.”

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• “In most cases, it is more satisfying to get a friend's answering machine and leave a cheery, tangible trace of your sincere commitment to the friendship than it is to engage in actual conversation.”

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• “A good soup attracts chairs. This is an African proverb. I can hear the shuffling and squeaking on the wood floor, the gathering 'round. This, from just five well-chosen words.”

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• “ADMIRE means, I really look up to you and the way you are with your cookies. You remind me of what is good and possible in this world.”

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• “It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling.”

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• “A friend sat next to a nun on a plane. He asked her what she missed most. "Wearing blue jeans," she replied.”

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• “Every day is the prime of your life.”

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• “Nothing > Love.”

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• “It takes a snowflake two hours to fall from cloud to earth. Can’t you just see its slow, peaceful decent?”

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• “For some reason, it takes my brain a moment to process…the open-close symbols on elevators, which is which.”

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• “If you really love someone, you want to know what they ate for lunch or dinner without you.”

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• “Peace means no one is worried about anyone else's cookie...in this moment we are all quietly content with the cookies we have.”

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• “He said it was a quintessential Pal moment—being out and about in the universe, and then unexpectedly crossing paths with someone from home base.”

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• “When you woke up, for a moment you thought you were the moon.”

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• “The same five letters can be rearranged to express my daily sense of—and relationship to—time. First from the viewpoint of childhood, then young adulthood, and now, the present. ACRES of it..CARES about it. RACES against it.”

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• “Then again, Einstein (pretty good at math) was also quite clear when he concluded, There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

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• “I think 90 percent of what/who we are is never really verbally communicated....”

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