When your life has had few events to occupy it, it's amazing how a simple encounter can seem like an entire three-act play. Mary E. Pearson More Quotes by Mary E. Pearson More Quotes From Mary E. Pearson It's other people who make us wise, and I haven't known nearly enough. Mary E. Pearson enough wise people How can you be sure?" "I'm a doctor, Jenna. And a scientist." "Does that make you an authority on everything? What about a soul, Father? When you were so busy implanting all your neural chips, did you think about that? Did you snip my soul from my old body, too? Where did you put it? Show me! Where? Where in all this groundbreaking technology did you insert my soul? Mary E. Pearson technology father thinking When is a cell finally too small to hold our essence? Mary E. Pearson cells essence But remember, child, we may all have our own story and destiny, and sometimes our seemingly bad fortune, but we're all part of a greater story too. One that transcends the soil, the wind, time even our own tears. Greater stories will have their way. Mary E. Pearson destiny wind children What we think is ethical today, we may not have thought ethical five or 10 years ago. Cloning, stem cell research? However we feel about those things today, we may feel differently 10 years from now. Mary E. Pearson feel think research today Fifty years in the future, I should hope we'll be on our second woman president, at least. Mary E. Pearson woman future president hope I have a manuscript that I'm almost done with, but I've been saying that forever. I'm on what I think will be the second-to-last chapter. It's a story about chance and coincidence. Mary E. Pearson saying story think chance Teens are passionate, questioning, curious, have a bit of the idealism I still cling to, and they're making decisions for the first time that can alter the course of their lives - and sometimes, the course of the world. Mary E. Pearson curious time sometimes world Teens affect history. They affect lives; they affect our cultural growth and change, and yet, and at the same time, they are often the most vulnerable among us. Mary E. Pearson growth change time history When I first began writing, and I told people what I wrote, I'd get a blank stare and sometimes a 'Huh?' They weren't sure what young adult literature was. Now everyone knows. Mary E. Pearson literature writing sometimes people I am undependable. You might get gritty contemporary with one book, science fiction, magical realism, or high fantasy with another. Mary E. Pearson i-am you science book I've discovered I love the vast landscape a series offers. I tend to write long anyway, so, it turns out, series gives me the perfect vehicle for writing 'large' stories. Mary E. Pearson me perfect love long Airports and 'leg room' on planes are a form of medieval torture. Mary E. Pearson leg room medieval torture
