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

Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel.

- Francine Pascal

The human heart was undeniably the stupidest organ in the body.

- Francine Pascal

The people with the most fear have the greatest opportunity to be brave.

- Francine Pascal

She figured if you weren't woman enough to carry your doughnuts with pride, you shouldn't be eating them.

- Francine Pascal

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 pron…

- Francine Pascal

Life's one great lesson was: Do not care. Not caring was a person's real protection.

- Francine Pascal

I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.

- Francine Pascal

If you want to mess with me, you'd rather be ready for the consequences.

- Francine Pascal