Ann M. Martin Quotes

I am never falling in love again! It hurts too much.

Back. WHERE ARE YOUR FEET? IN THE KITCHEN! The Thomas/Brewer family was in total, utter chaos. It was 11:00 A.M. on the Sunday before Labor Day. My family was just waking up, groggy and jetlagged. We’...

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Ann Matthews Martin (born August 12, 1955) is an American children's fiction writer, known best for The Baby-Sitters Club series.

I felt terrible. What could I do to make Kristy feel better? And if she felt better, would she be nicer to me?

I hoped that Mary Anne, Claudia, Stacey, and I - the Baby Sitters Club - would stay together for a long time.

I knew he needed to get out of Connecticut, but couldn’t he see what he was doing to our family? It was bad enough that Mom and Dad were divorced. Still, Mom and Jeff and I managed to seem like a litt...

I pick at what's left of the popcorn and think about the summer, the summer that was both awful and wonderful. I thank Adam, as I have thanked him almost every night since August, for showing me that...

I pushed my chair back and stood up. Look, I invented the Baby-Sitters Club. The whole idea was to work together, human-to-human contact, over the phone and in meetings. If you don't have that, you do...

I put my head in my hands. Neither Claire nor Margo was going to win.Hey, said Claudia, don’t feel too bad. At least your contestants stuck it out.I wanted one of them to win something, though. I want...

I thought for a moment. I did want the job. It sounded like fun, and I needed some fun. I didn’t want to cause any more problems among us sitters, though. On the other hand, this might be my chance to...

I wished Charlotte had asked for me. It made me feel like I wasn’t a good sitter or something, even though I knew that wasn’t really true.

Let’s see, I said. Claire, you’re near the beginning. You’ll always go on stage right after Myriah. And Margo, you’re sort of near the middle. You’ll always go on right after Sabrina Bouvier.Right aft...

Said Emily.

Matt says he thinks the Patriots are going to win the Super Bowl this year. He

Mike and I ran through everything we thought Courtenay should know about being on her own in the big, bad world: who to trust, who not to trust, what to do if somebody wanted to give her candy, touch...

Took the inchworm off my shoulder and put it on Sally’s pillow to see how she’d react.

Oh, easy, said Janine. It was George Herman. That’s it. I won! Cheater! I cried. You looked! You must have looked! I did not, Janine retorted. I just knew it. Nerd! Janine slammed the board shut and w...

Oh, that is pathetic, said Mallory to Jessi. Look at them. They’re going to think the only thing that matters in their lives is beauty and poise. They’ll grow up believing they can only be pretty face...

Pop once said it’s a good thing we don’t know what’s around the corner. I didn’t understand what he meant then, but I do now. It’s better to wish than to know.

She was wearing a wonderful Claudia outfit — a purple-and-white striped bodysuit under a gray jumper-thing. The legs of the bodysuit stretched all the way to her ankles, but she was wearing purple pus...

Sorry, Mary Anne, I can’t hear you! I shouted into the phone receiver. Mary Anne Spier cleared her throat and began, I said, hi, I really missed you, and — EEEEEEEE! That was my two-year-old sister, E...