Susan Beth Pfeffer Quotes

I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all.

~ Susan Beth Pfeffer

If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.

~ Susan Beth Pfeffer

But she's wrong about hell. You don't have to wait until you're dead to get there.

~ Susan Beth Pfeffer

The Christmas after Mom & Dad split up, they both went crazy buying us presents. Matt, Jonny, and I were showered with gifts at home and at Dads apartment. I thought that was great. I was all in favor of my love being paid for with presents. This year all I got was a diary and a secondhand watch. Okay, I know this is corny, but this really is what Christmas is all about.

~ Susan Beth Pfeffer

I thought about the earth then, really thought about it, the tsunami's and earthquakes and volcanoes, all the horrors I haven't witnessed but have changed my life, the lives of everyone I know, all the people I'll never know. I thought about life without the sun, the moon, stars, without flowers and warm days in May. I thought about a year ago and all the good things I'd taken for granted and all the unbearable things that had replaced those simple blessings. And even though I hated the thought of crying in from of Syl, tears streamed down my face.

~ Susan Beth Pfeffer

I wonder if I cry whether my tears would be gray.

~ Susan Beth Pfeffer

Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.

~ Susan Beth Pfeffer

I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's would still be open.

~ Susan Beth Pfeffer

Because if I let myself feel the pain and the anger, I think it might kill me. Or I might kill someone else. I know it's wrong to feel that way about God and I know its's wrong to not feel anything. I hate it. I don't hate God. I hate not loving Him.

~ Susan Beth Pfeffer

Which means every tomorrow is going to be worse than every today. Why feel sorry for myself today when tomorrow's bound to be worse?

~ Susan Beth Pfeffer

We're all alive. We're all healthy. These are the good times.

~ Susan Beth Pfeffer

So what if I don't learn algebra?''Someday schools will be open again,' Mom said. 'Things will be normal. You need to do your work now for when that happens.''That's never going to happen,' Jon said. 'And even if schools do open up somewhere, they're not going to open up here. There aren't enough people left.' 'We don't know how many people are like us, holed up, making do until times get better.''I bet whoever they are, they aren't studying algebra,' Jon said.

~ Susan Beth Pfeffer

My existence is the only gift I have left to give, but it will have to do.

~ Susan Beth Pfeffer

I have scars. No one alive today doesn't. But Alex's scars have to be much deeper than mine.

~ Susan Beth Pfeffer

Every day we're one day closer to death. But there's no reason to rush into it.

~ Susan Beth Pfeffer

One of the more gratifying things about guilt is that it makes us feel important.

~ Susan Beth Pfeffer

Sometimes the rues don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.

~ Susan Beth Pfeffer

I never really thought about how when I look at the moon, it's the same moon as Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at.

~ Susan Beth Pfeffer

So we baked and sweated together. I like punching the dough. I told myself it was the moon and punched it senseless.

~ Susan Beth Pfeffer

We're all alive. We're all health. These are the good times.

~ Susan Beth Pfeffer

The only way you can be the best at something is to be the best you can be.

~ Susan Beth Pfeffer

Just in case the world ends tomorrow, we might as well enjoy today.

~ Susan Beth Pfeffer