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> [I got used to being a writer. To compare it to teaching - I taught for twenty-five years; for the first two or three years it was heady. I was discovering that I could do something and do it well.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-voigt/i-got-used-to-being-a-writer-to-compare-it-to-teaching-i-taught-for/)

[Cynthia Voigt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-voigt/)

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## More by Cynthia Voigt

> [You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living of it?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-voigt/you-must-not-let-yourself-become-too-respectable-keep-yourself-a/)

[Cynthia Voigt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-voigt/)

> [“On a bright Sunday morning in the early years of the last century,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-voigt/on-a-bright-sunday-morning-in-the-early-years-of-the-last-century/)

[Cynthia Voigt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-voigt/)

> [“People had no more choice than animals about the burdens they carried.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-voigt/people-had-no-more-choice-than-animals-about-the-burdens-they-carried/)

[Cynthia Voigt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-voigt/)

> [The worst things weren't outside of you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-voigt/the-worst-things-weren-t-outside-of-you/)

[Cynthia Voigt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-voigt/)

> [“He knew it was perfect, and perfectly beautiful. He thought about how much she would like it. When he thought like that, happiness swelled…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-voigt/he-knew-it-was-perfect-and-perfectly-beautiful-he-thought-about-how/)

[Cynthia Voigt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-voigt/)

> [“You were going to fall, you always did, but you had to get up fast and keep going.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-voigt/you-were-going-to-fall-you-always-did-but-you-had-to-get-up-fast-and/)

[Cynthia Voigt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-voigt/)

> [Even the bad books I write are satisfying. I'm my least critical reader.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-voigt/even-the-bad-books-i-write-are-satisfying-i-m-my-least-critical-reader/)

[Cynthia Voigt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-voigt/)

> [People can be unimaginably foolish...and they can be unimaginably grand, at times.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-voigt/people-can-be-unimaginably-foolish-and-they-can-be-unimaginably-grand/)

[Cynthia Voigt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-voigt/)

> [“And so I was. I can put on the cloak of the world I find myself in, however I happen to find myself in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-voigt/and-so-i-was-i-can-put-on-the-cloak-of-the-world-i-find-myself-in/)

[Cynthia Voigt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-voigt/)

> [“The people they had been last summer, the person she had been--Dicey guessed she'd never be afraid again, not the way she had been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-voigt/the-people-they-had-been-last-summer-the-person-she-had-been-dicey/)

[Cynthia Voigt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-voigt/)

> [“ I felt that the world itself had changed and that it would never be steady under my feet again. I felt I understood…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-voigt/i-felt-that-the-world-itself-had-changed-and-that-it-would-never-be/)

[Cynthia Voigt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-voigt/)

> [Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-voigt/kids-are-really-tougher-than-adults-but-we-tend-to-forget-this-in-an/)

[Cynthia Voigt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-voigt/)

> [“Mina thought to herself, watching, her momma was the kind of woman she wanted to be, wherever else she got to in her life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-voigt/mina-thought-to-herself-watching-her-momma-was-the-kind-of-woman-she/)

[Cynthia Voigt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-voigt/)

> [“The No filled the whole air of the house. Every time she breathed in she breathed in that No.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-voigt/the-no-filled-the-whole-air-of-the-house-every-time-she-breathed-in/)

[Cynthia Voigt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-voigt/)

> [“Mina wanted some of the kind of love Momma gave to her children, where love was the first and deepest thing, and the questions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-voigt/mina-wanted-some-of-the-kind-of-love-momma-gave-to-her-children-where/)

[Cynthia Voigt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-voigt/)

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