Because if I let myself feel the pain and the anger, I think it might kill me. Or I might kill someone else. I know it's wrong to feel that way about God and I know it's wrong to not feel anything. I hate it. Furthermore, I don't hate God. Furthermore, I hate not loving Him.

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

But she's wrong about hell. You don't have to wait until you're dead to get there.

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

Every day we're one day closer to death. But there's no reason to rush into it.

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's would still be open.

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

I have scars. No one alive today doesn't. But Alex's scars have to be much deeper than mine.

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

I never really thought about how when I look at the moon, it's the same moon as Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at.

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

I thought about the earth then, really thought about it, the tsunami's and earthquakes and volcanoes, all the horrors I haven't witnessed but have changed my life, the lives of everyone I know, all the people I'll never know. I thought about life without the sun, the moon, stars, without flowers and warm days in May. Furthermore, I thought about a year ago and all the good things I'd taken for granted and all the unbearable things that had replaced those simple blessings. And even though I hated the thought of crying in from of SYL, tears streamed down my face.

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

I wonder if I cry whether my tears would be gray.

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all.

— Susan Beth Pfeffer