Top 22 Quotes & Sayings by Carolyn Mackler

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American author Carolyn Mackler.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Carolyn Mackler is an American author of young adult literature. She has written nine novels including Infinite in Between; Love and Other Four-Letter Words; The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, which won an honorable mention from the Michael L. Printz award; Vegan Virgin Valentine; Guyaholic; and Tangled. Her novels are in print in more than 20 countries such as: the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, France, Italy, Korea, the Netherlands, Denmark, Israel, and Indonesia. Mackler has also contributed to many magazines including Seventeen, Storyworks, Glamour, Girl's Life, and American Girl. She coauthored The Future of Us with Jay Asher.

American - Author | Born: July 13, 1973

Source: Wikipedia

Prior to being bullied, I was a very footloose sixth-grader. You know, I was quirky, I was creative - I really felt good in my own body. And when I was bullied in seventh grade, my self-esteem tanked.

Carolyn Mackler

I think that being bullied is a shameful experience.

Carolyn Mackler

Everything you do to other people affects them, and how you treat people affects them.

Carolyn Mackler

My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.

Carolyn Mackler

I miss CDs. I miss listening to a whole album, even the lame songs that sometimes grow on you.

Carolyn Mackler

Life's a car ride...Sometimes it's cruise control down smooth highways. Other times it's potholes on rural roads.

Carolyn Mackler

Sometimes we make decisions about our life and they feel like the right decision at the time. No, they are the right decision at the time. But that doesn't mean they'll be the right decision forever.

Carolyn Mackler

Never underestimate yourself

Carolyn Mackler

It's like you wake up one morning, and decided that how you've been in the past doesn't have to define who you are in the future. Simple as that.

Carolyn Mackler

I guess quotes make me feel more connected.

Carolyn Mackler

The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.

Carolyn Mackler

But it there's anything I've learned in the past few months, it's that the only thing that's certain in life is that nothing in life is certain.

Carolyn Mackler

I love being reminded that existence itself is all about the tangling of souls.

Carolyn Mackler

Remember what to do when you're at the bottom of a hole? You've got to stop digging.

Carolyn Mackler

And also...well...i told them I want to get an apartment with him next year rather than live in the dorms." What'd they say?" Over their dead bodies." What did you say?" I asked whether they wanted to be burie or cremated.

Carolyn Mackler

I like the flaws best," Sam said. "They make her real.

Carolyn Mackler

I've always protected myself when it comes to love. And maybe that's the problem. By not letting myself get hurt now, it ripples into much bigger pain later.

Carolyn Mackler

On Valentine's Day, the Spirit Club plastered the school with red streamersand pink balloons and red and pink hearts. It looked like Clifford the Big Red Dog ate a flock of flamigoes and then barfed his guts up.

Carolyn Mackler

You know how I feel about love. It was invented to sell wedding cakes. And vacations to Waikiki.

Carolyn Mackler

There isn't a definite right and wrong anyway. Sometimes we do what seems wrong, but we have good reasons for doing it, so it's not wrong after all.

Carolyn Mackler

The reason books get banned, but movies can do almost anything is because the novel is more powerful than a movie. The reader is part of the creation of the story because they must imagine and envision it. There is creation in the act of reading.

Carolyn Mackler

The Fat Girl Code of Conduct: 1. Any sexual activity is a secret. No public displays of affection. 2. Don’t discuss your weight with him. 3. Go further than skinny girls. If you can’t sell him on your body, you’d better overcompensate with sexual perks. 4. Never, ever, ever, ever, ever push the relationship thing.

Carolyn Mackler

Top 22 Quotes & Sayings by Carolyn Mackler

Related Authors