Francine Pascal
Francine Pascal (May 13, 1938— ) is an American author best known for creating the Sweet Valley series of novels. In 1982 she created the characters and the stories for the first six books and her agent, Amy Berkower of Writers House sold them to Bantam Books. Book number one is mostly written by Ms. Pascal. From then on she wrote the stories for every book ever published in the series. After the first book ghostwriters were hired and edited by Dan Weiss' packaging company.
Ms. Pascal was married to writer John Pascal (July 8, 1932 - January 7, 1981), and her brother was Broadway lyricist Michael Stewart (August 1, 1924 – September 20, 1987).
She now divides her time between homes in New York and the south of France.
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“Life's one great lesson was: Do not care. Not caring was a person's real protection.”
“Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel.”
“But the way I see it, dying without knowing love would be a tragedy.”
“She figured if you weren't woman enough to carry your doughnuts with pride, you shouldn't be eating them.”
“Another funny thing about having friends was that they expected things of you. they made you want to not be a terrible, awful, execrable person. They made you feel worse when you were one. It was a lot easier not to have any friends.”
“Humiliation, by the way, is a truly terrible emotion. It's at the bottom of the pile.”
“Renny was smarter and funnier and more original than they'd ever be, but he was thirteen. He was at the brutal age when many kids would sell all their uniqueness in their character for the right pair of shoes.”
“Nature compensates for its mistakes.”
“Losers with no imagination say that if you start a new school, there has to be a first day. How come they haven't figure out how to be that? Just think existentially. All you do is take what is supposed to be the first day and bury someplace in the next month. By the time you get around to it a month later, who cares?”
“If you want to mess with me, you'd rather be ready for the consequences.”
“When I first heard the word existential, I didn't know what it meant. But then I found out that no one knows what it means, so now I use it all the time.”
“Ella was vapid and worthless at least nine-tenths of the time, but when she got really mad, her face became sharp and purposeful. Almost vicious. Like if Barbie were suddenly possessed by Atilla the Hun.”
“Ed felt faint. Milk shake, as it turned out, was much less handy in your veins then, say, oxygen.”
“the more the merrier. so enjoy reading more books”
“The human heart was undeniably the stupidest organ in the body.”
“It's so trendy, almost bleeding to death. All the cool girls are doing it.”
“He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And modest, too." "Modesty is a waste of time," she pronounced. "I'll keep that in mind.”