Quotes from Wish You Were Dead

Todd Strasser ·  236 pages

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“If you've never known someone your own age who's died, you can't imagine what it feels like. It's as if you were walking on a glass floor and it suddenly shatters and now you're falling and falling and there's broken glass in the air all around you and no bottom in sight.”
― Todd Strasser, quote from Wish You Were Dead


“Some people get more of a chance to show who they are. Other people never get the chance.”
― Todd Strasser, quote from Wish You Were Dead


“But then again, impossible never became rumour, did it?”
― Todd Strasser, quote from Wish You Were Dead


“Sometimes you know when someone is telling you the truth.”
― Todd Strasser, quote from Wish You Were Dead


“Why do we believe one stranger and not another?”
― Todd Strasser, quote from Wish You Were Dead



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Todd Strasser
Born place: in New York, New York, The United States
Born date May 5, 1950
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