Quotes from Amy Krouse Rosenthal

At the end of life, at the end of YOUR life, what essence emerges? What have you filled the world with? In remembering you, what words will others choose?

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Every day is the prime of your life.

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

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

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

For anyone trying to discern what to do with their life: PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO. That's pretty much all the info you need.

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

I just learned the German word fernweh, sort of a cousin to wanderlust; it means "far-sickness, an ache for distance." Penny

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

Work must reflect the randomness of life, with its incessant, merciless, almost humorous bombardment of highly contrasting emotions and experiences.

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.