Sarah Mlynowski Quotes

Sarah Mlynowski

Sarah Mlynowski is a Canadian writer of middle-grade fiction, young adult novels, and adult fiction. She lives in New York City. (Sarah Mlynowski Quotes)

“A friendship can’t survive on childhood memories alone. We have to create new experiences, or the friendship will shrivel up.”
Sarah Mlynowski
I See London, I See France

“A guy who treats his mom well, treats his wife well.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Ten Things We Did

“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.”

“Again, right? But how will they know to save us? Hmm. Yopopa’s supposedly a genius. That’s probably”
Sarah Mlynowski
Fairest of All

“Although, if they did find out, then at least I wouldn’t have to lie about it anymore. But I bet they’d be pretty freaked out. Maybe they would give the mirror away. Although it’s bolted to the wall. If they couldn’t get it off, maybe they would want to move. I’d have to go to another school. I bet Robin would miss me then. I hear another creak. The sound is coming from right next to my room. Which means it’s my brother’s door, and not my parents’. Maybe Maryrose woke up Jonah, too. I glance at the clock. It’s 11:56. Maryrose only lets us through the mirror at midnight. Is Jonah sneaking down to the basement? Is he planning on going through the mirror without me? He better not be. He knows he’s not allowed to do that. “Jonah?” I say quietly. No answer.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Cold As Ice

“And have a burger.” “With fries, not flies,” Jonah adds. I laugh.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Once Upon a Frog

“And Sage Academy did not want wonky.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Upside-Down Magic

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

“Comes up from the basement. He has a folder in his hands. “I can barely hear myself think.” He looks over at the broken lamp. Then at me. Then at Jonah, standing with his arms”
Sarah Mlynowski
Sugar and Spice

“Couldn’t he have checked his shoelaces BEFORE entering a dark, super-creepy cave?”
Sarah Mlynowski
Genie in a Bottle

“Covered in trees, and dazzling waterfalls spilling into blue lakes. There are also dirt roads zigzagging in and around. But the most amazing thing about the view is that there is a haze of multicolored sparkles hovering over the mountains.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Bad Hair Day

“Do not flux in the lunchroom.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Upside-Down Magic

“Down a pair of rain boots, she thought, but I’m definitely up in friends.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Showing Off

“Even though she’s the queen of cold, she’s as mesmerizing”
Sarah Mlynowski
Cold As Ice

“Excuse me,” Sebastian told Tip. “Not only can I hear your whisper, but I can see the sound waves of your whisper. They’re a very pale green color, like the pee of an extremely sick person.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Dragon Overnight

“Feet were the rootiest part of the human body.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Showing Off

“Filling every space of the room. The piles of diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls, sapphires,” (Sarah Mlynowski Quotes)
Sarah Mlynowski
Genie in a Bottle

“Getting married is forever, no matter what my spouse does.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Ten Things We Did

“Good-bye,” he says. “Bring back the lamp.” Not going to happen, mister.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Genie in a Bottle

“He knew he was sounding a little Holden Caulfield-esque calling everyone a phony, but he really did think everyone was a phony.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Don’t Even Think About It

“How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck chlamydia?”
Sarah Mlynowski
Ten Things We Did

“I got my hair soaked! This is a heart attack! The earthworms say: You should love me back!”
Sarah Mlynowski
Showing Off

“I guess people can be wrong and right at the same time.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Spill the Beans

“I hesitate. I feel like we forgot something. But what?”
Sarah Mlynowski
Genie in a Bottle

“I know a song that gets on everybody’s nerves, everybody’s nerves, everybody’s nerves —” “I’m going to”
Sarah Mlynowski
Bad Hair Day

“I like to be in charge of my destiny.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Think Twice

“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.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Ten Things We Did

“I spot my jewelry box on my dresser and think about Lana. I had wanted her to accept her life as is, but she wanted to fight for her dreams. Sure, sometimes you have to get what you get and not get upset. But maybe other times, you have to follow your heart and go after what you really want. Take a risk. Be brave. I guess part of growing up is learning when to do which.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Sink or Swim

“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.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Gimme a Call

“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.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Abby in Oz

“I’m hungry. Do you have any Cheetos?” “Cheetos?” I screech. “We’ve somehow been transported from our basement to a forest in the middle of the night, and you’re thinking about Cheetos?”
Sarah Mlynowski
Fairest of All

“I’m staring at Snow White. The real Snow White. I’m in her living room.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Fairest of All

“I’m still irritated at the end of the day when my brother, Jonah, and I are standing outside school, waiting for our dad to pick us up. It doesn’t help when Brandon says, “Bye, Crabby Abby,” as he strolls past me. He walks home from school by himself. Either his parents trust him to make his way home alone or they think he’s awful, too, and are hoping he gets kidnapped.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Once Upon a Frog

“If you’ve given me up, I’ll be okay without you! I am one of a kind And I’ve got my crew. It’s true, I’m one of a kind and I’ve got my crew.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Showing Off

“In the reflection I see my shoulder-length curly brown hair. My lime-green pajamas. My striped slippers.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Fairest of All

“Is it my imagination or is the flying carpet going a little faster today?” Jonah asks as we coast through the desert. I’m sitting up front with him. Aladdin and Prince are behind us. Prince’s ears flap in the breeze. There was no ear flapping yesterday. “It is!” I say. “And a little higher, too. You’re definitely getting the hang of magic-carpet flying.” We only bumped into two people on the way. “So since I mastered that, can I wear the ring now?” Jonah asks.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Genie in a Bottle

“It’s just not fair. And things need to be fair. Judges make things fair, and so will I.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Fairest of All

“Jonah makes sure to sit next to Jack, gazing up at him admiringly.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Spill the Beans

“Just because a relationship ends, it doesn’t mean it’s not worth having.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Gimme a Call

“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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Don’t Even Think About It

“Keeping a positive outlook does wonders for your health.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Seeing Red

“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury: I do not want to call pop soda. I do not want to eat gloppy banana mush. I do not want to be it. “I’m pretty sure the way I play is the right way,” I say, my throat tightening. I’m right. I am.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Fairest of All

“Lightning only strikes once,” my dad said. “And when it hits, you know.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Ten Things We Did

“Liking someone doesn’t make you weak.” (Sarah Mlynowski Quotes)
Sarah Mlynowski
Ten Things We Did

“Loyalty to your school means loyalty to every member of our community.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Sticks & Stones

“Maybe in Smithville a room filled with books is called a media room, but it smells just like the library in my old, normal school. Musty. Dusty. Papery.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Fairest of All

“Maybe we could call me a… Fluid!” “Ooooh, that’s way better than Fishie”
Sarah Mlynowski
Weather or Not

“Maybe we should hear Jack’s plan first,” Jonah says. “He hasn’t even thought of one,” I say with an edge. “I’d like to hear Abby’s idea,” Jack says. Right answer, kid. “Yeah, me too,” Jonah says, smiling at Jack. I give Jonah the side-eye.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Spill the Beans

“Mom will not be happy if we wake her up. (She already got annoyed at me once today when I told her she was six minutes and forty-five seconds late picking me up at school. I didn’t mean to make her feel bad. But I have a supercool timer on my watch, and if I’m not going to use it to tell her how late she is, then what am I going to use it for?)”
Sarah Mlynowski
Fairest of All

“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.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Ten Things We Did

“Normal is boring. Who wants that?”
Sarah Mlynowski
Don’t Even Think About It

“Nory was preparing to take a Big Test. The Big Test, for the second time. The first time had been a disaster. Nory was in fifth grade.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Hide and Seek

“Of course I wondered if I was dreaming, but it seemed so real.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Abby in Wonderland

“Oh, I can find Matt anywhere. I have perfect Matt-dar. I used to be able to spot him across campus in a group of a thousand. I’m like Edward sniffing out Bella. I’m a vampire. I can smell him in any room.”
Sarah Mlynowski
I See London, I See France

“Part of me could do it. Run off and get married. But another part… Another part of me wondered if I could really trust anyone. If all relationships were all doomed.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Ten Things We Did

“Power is the ability to influence and control.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Think Twice

“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.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Sugar and Spice

“She named her horse Basil? That’s the worst name for a horse I ever heard.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Bad Hair Day

“She said people found running to something easier than running from something.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Ten Things We Did

“Some lies were safer than the truth.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Upside-Down Magic

“Sometimes you don’t need lightning to start a fire. Sometimes, it builds on its own.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Ten Things We Did

“Such a sensitive dog. Or maybe he just needs to go outside for other reasons.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Bad Hair Day

“That’s our story. How we became a we. And that’s what we are these day. A we. When you’re a group that can hear each other’s thoughts, the line between I and We gets kind of blurry.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Don’t Even Think About It

“The enemy of our enemy our friend?”
Sarah Mlynowski
Good as Gold

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Abby in Oz

“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.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Think Twice

“Then there were Flares, Fluxers, Fuzzies, and Flickers. Flyers flew. Flares worked with fire and heat. Fluxers could turn themselves into animals. Fuzzies could talk to and connect with animals. Flickers could turn invisible or make other things invisible.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Dragon Overnight

“They write songs about California girls for a reason.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Ten Things We Did

“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.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Don’t Even Think About It

“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.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Once Upon a Frog

“We found a puppy. In the… um… backyard. Yes! The backyard! And then we … went to see if any of our neighbors lost a puppy. That’s why we didn’t hear you calling earlier. We were outside.”

“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” (Sarah Mlynowski Quotes)
Sarah Mlynowski
If the Shoe Fits

“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.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Don’t Even Think About It

“Well, there are other versions of the story,” I say, thinking out loud. “Besides the throwing and the kissing.” “Like what?” Frederic asks. I bite my lip. This is going to be worse than the frog-legs conversation. “Well, there’s the one where the princess chops off the frog’s head, and then he turns into a prince,” I say all in a rush. Frederic’s eyes almost pop out of his head. “I do not wish to try that one.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Once Upon a Frog

“We’re all crazy. What’s your specific form of crazy?”
Sarah Mlynowski
Ten Things We Did

“What house do you belong to?” “Ravenclaw,” I say. The clever one. The woman hands me the blue Ravenclaw scarf. “You’re also kind of a Hufflepuff, don’t you think?” Leela asks. “Hardworking, loyal . . . Although last night you were a total Gryffindor. So brave.” “Maybe I’m Divergent,” I say. I pose under the Platform 9¾ sign, point my wand, and smile for Leela’s photo.”
Sarah Mlynowski
I See London, I See France

“What if she never made any friends and she spent her lunches hiding in the girls’ bathroom trying not to turn into a bitten?”
Sarah Mlynowski
Upside-Down Magic

“While you make decisions about hors d’oeuvres for the party, maids will gently rub your temples to ward off too much hard thinking.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Two Peas in a Pod

“You can tell a lot about a person not just by their successes, but by how they deal with their setbacks”
Sarah Mlynowski
Ten Things We Did

“You don’t just decide to have sex because you feel like having sex. You decide to have sex once you realize you’re in love with someone and want to express that love physically.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Ten Things We Did

“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.”
Sarah Mlynowski
I See London, I See France

“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.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Ten Things We Did

“You think there are rules But there are none none none. You think there are rules But you’ve already won I won’t break (ake ake ake) Don’t mistake (ake ake ake)”
Sarah Mlynowski
Hide and Seek

“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.”
Sarah Mlynowski
Bad Hair Day