Gary D. Schmidt Short Quotes

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Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles.

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When a girl holds a rose up to you, you run better, let me tell you.

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It means, Doug Swieteck, that in this class, you are not your brother.

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No matter what happens, there is always the business of the world to attend to.

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Whatever it means to be a friend, taking a black eye for someone has to be in it.

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We were both chumps. But you know what? It's not so bad when you're chumps together.

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There's no pleasure in getting to be an old coot unless you have some fun along the way.

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There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power.

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Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.

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Did you find yourself?" "What?" said my sister. "Did you find yourself?" "She found me," I said.

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A heart that has lost knows every other heart that has lost. Late and soon, loss is all the same.

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Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.

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Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.

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OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.

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A comedy isn't about being funny...a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all.

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You know, when someone has been crying, something gets left in the air. It's not something you can see or smell, or feel. Or draw. But it's there.

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If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but what they would have been alive for is the question Shakespeare wants us to answer.

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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 this was about the best place it could happen.

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Maybe this happens to you every day, but I think it was the first time I could hardly wait to show something that I'd done to someone who would care besides my mother. You know how that feels?

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In English, we were still on the Introduction to Poetry Unit, and I'm not lying, if I ever meet Percy Bysshe Shelley walking down the streets of Marysville, I'm going to punch him right in the face.

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Mrs. Daugherty was keeping my bowl of cream of wheat hot, and she had a special treat with it, she said. It was bananas. In the whole story of the world, bananas have never once been a special treat.

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