Gary D. Schmidt

Quotes

• “A southwest blow on ye and blister you all o'er!''The red plague rid you!''Toads, beetles, bats, light on you!''As wicke...”
• “I almost cried. But I didn't, because if you're in seventh grade and you cry while wearing a blue floral cape and yellow...”
• “Would you have left a guy being beat up to go find a teacher?' I asked.My father, he wiped his hand across his face, and...”
• “Lizzie Bright Griffin, do you ever wish the world would just go ahead and swallow you whole?""Sometimes I do," she said,...”
• “I know. That sounds like a lie. But Presbyterians know that every so often a lie isn't all that bad, and I figured that ...”
• “You know one thing that Mr. Powell taught me? He taught me that sometimes, art can make you forget everything else all a...”
• “There are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them... Why can't poets just say what they want to say ...”
• “A comedy isn’t about being funny...a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending aft...”
• “OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.”
• “Whatever it means to be a friend, taking a black eye for someone has to be in it.”
• “It means, Doug Swieteck, that in this class, you are not your brother.”
• “He missed him like he would miss the sun if it fell out of the sky.”
• “Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles.”
• “Reader, I kissed her. A quiet walk we had, she and I.”
• “We carry our childhood with us.”
• “more to be a human being with”