I welcome each new day with a hopeful expectancy that I, too, will rise above the ordinary. For I am not content to live a merely “normal” life or settle for an average existence. No, I am destined for more—much, much more.

About Melody Carlson

Melody Carlson (born March 2, 1956) is an American author. She has written over 250 books for women, teens and children, including the Diary of a Teenage Girl series.

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Girls can be so petty and jealous. I swear they're worse than guys sometimes. Except they're all quiet about it. They sugarcoat it or else they talk behind each others backs. It's seriously twisted.

—Melody Carlson in The Jerk Magnet

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To the casual observer it looks like I have moved on since I go around wearing my little happy mask all day. I smile and laugh and carry on like my heart's still in one piece, but beneath it all, I am dying.

—Melody Carlson in Deep Green

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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.

—Wilson Mizner

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But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

—Benjamin Franklin

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If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.

—Peter Ustinov

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There are as many opinions as there are experts.

—Franklin D. Roosevelt

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