Gary D. Schmidt Quotes
Gary D. Schmidt Quotes
Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.
1662 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 tights with white feathers on the butt, you just have to curl up and die somewhere in a dark alley.
4745 OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.
3081 Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.
3349 more to be a human being with
3803 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 and then shut up?
1876 You know one thing that Mr. Powell taught me? He taught me that sometimes, art can make you forget everything else all around you. That's what are can do.
4811 Whatever it means to be a friend, taking a black eye for someone has to be in it.
4679 There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power.
4461 Lizzie Bright Griffin, do you ever wish the world would just go ahead and swallow you whole?"
"Sometimes I do," she said, and then smiled. "but sometimes I figure I should just go ahead and swallow it.
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