Quotes of Francine Pascal

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“It's so trendy, almost bleeding to death. All the cool girls are doing it.” ― Francine Pascal, Fearless
“He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And modest, too." "Modesty is a waste of time," she pronounced. "I'll keep that in mind.” ― Francine Pascal, Fearless
“When I first heard the word existential, I didn't know what it meant. But then I found out that no one knows what it means, so now I use it all the time.” ― Francine Pascal, Fearless
“I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you’re not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet.” ― Francine Pascal, Fearless
“Life's one great lesson was: Do not care. Not caring was a person's real protection.” ― Francine Pascal, Fearless
“The human heart was undeniably the stupidest organ in the body.” ― Francine Pascal
“She figured if you weren't woman enough to carry your doughnuts with pride, you shouldn't be eating them.” ― Francine Pascal , Fearless
“Pretty people do ugly things.It was one of those laws of nature that Gaia had understood for years. If she ever started to forget that ride for a second, there always seemed to be some good-looking asshole ready to remind her.” ― Francine Pascal, Twisted
“Humiliation, by the way, is a truly terrible emotion. It's at the bottom of the pile.” ― Francine Pascal, Fearless
“Another funny thing about having friends was that they expected things of you. they made you want to not be a terrible, awful, execrable person. They made you feel worse when you were one. It was a lot easier not to have any friends.” ― Francine Pascal, Fearless
“But the way I see it, dying without knowing love would be a tragedy.” ― Francine Pascal, Fearless
“The people with the most fear have the greatest opportunity to be brave.” ― Francine Pascal, Sam
“Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel.” ― Francine Pascal, Fearless
“As pathetic as it was, she'd rather hold on to the possibility of something perfect than be hit with the reality of nothing much.” ― Francine Pascal, Payback
“Nature compensates for its mistakes.” ― Francine Pascal, Fearless
“the more the merrier. so enjoy reading more books” ― Francine Pascal
“If you want to mess with me, you'd rather be ready for the consequences.” ― Francine Pascal, The Boys of Summer
“She walked away without bothering to look further. She knew he’d be fine. Her specialty was subduing without causing any real damage. He’d lie there for a few minutes. He’d be sore, maybe bruised tomorrow. He’d brush the cobwebs off his imagination to invent a story for his buddies about how three seven-foot, three-hundred-pound male karate black belts attacked him in the park.But she would bet her life on the fact that he would never sneak up on another fragile-looking woman without remembering this night. And that was the point. That was what Gaia lived for.” ― Francine Pascal, Fearless
“Ella was vapid and worthless at least nine-tenths of the time, but when she got really mad, her face became sharp and purposeful. Almost vicious. Like if Barbie were suddenly possessed by Atilla the Hun.” ― Francine Pascal, Sam
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Francine Pascal

Francine Pascal (May 13, 1938— ) is an American author best known for creating the Sweet Valley series of novels. In 1982 she created the characters and the stories for the first six books and her agent, Amy Berkower of Writers House sold them to Bantam Books…

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