The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Quotes

Keep playing.

I think I wasn't made for houses.

The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that?

We are born not once, but again and again.

A pigeon is the same thing as a dove. Did you know that?

Bridget wondered whether it came down to the claustrophobic choice between dying beautiful or living ugly.

Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard.

Carmen loved shopping, but she hated throwing anything away. She loved beginnings, but she hated endings. She loved order, but she hated cleaning.

Why did you let me ruin everything? She had the perverse wish that the ugly consequences of her tirades would magically dissolve within a few hours. She wished her victims would just snap right back like cartoon characters after they got their heads flattened by a frying pan. Instead, the wreckage lived on, far longer than her anger.

Paul had told Carmen once that you could distinguish a drunk from a drinker, because a drinker could choose to stop and a drunk couldn't. Carmen was a drunk. She could take or leave alcohol; anger was her mode of self-destruction. She couldn't stop when normal people could.

There was a word for this. It started with an H. It not only indicated you were a horrible waste of a person, but also somehow seemed to indicate that you were fat. What was it? Oh yeah. Hypocrite.

There are two kinds of people in the world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and the kind who don't.

Sometimes you need to make a mess.

Treasure in such large amounts stops feeling precious.

Sometimes Carmen marveled at the sheer volume of thoughts cramming her head. Did other people think this much?

Fine, blood was thicker than water. But friendship, it struck Tibby, was thicker than both.

I'm just...strange. I'm strange to myself.