Gary D. Schmidt Quotes

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• The light made the snowballs look yellow. Or at least I hoped that was the cause.

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  Light, Yellow, Looks

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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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  Answers, Alive, Want

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

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  Real, Miracle, World

  Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.259, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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  Book, Reading, Library

  Gary D. Schmidt (2011). “Okay for Now”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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  Together, Chumps, Knows

  Gary D. Schmidt (2011). “Okay for Now”, p.330, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The world turns and the world spins, the tide runs in and the tide runs out, and there is nothing in the world more beautiful and more wonderful in all its evolved forms than two souls who look at each other straight on. And there is nothing more woeful and soul-saddening than when they are parted...everyting in the world rejoices in the touch, and everything in the world laments in the losing.

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  Beautiful, Running, Two

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• The world is Trouble...and Grace. That is all there is.

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  Grace, World, Trouble

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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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  Wise, Growing Up, Men

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• Maybe the Snowy Heron is going to come off pretty badly when the planes come together. Maybe. But he's still proud and beautiful. His head is high, and he's got this sharp beak that's facing out to the world.He's okay for now.

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  Beautiful, Together, World

  Gary D. Schmidt (2011). “Okay for Now”, p.202, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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  Girl, Running, Rose

  Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Mr. Powell raised an eyebrow. 'I'm a librarian,' he said. 'I always know what I'm talking about.

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  Talking, Eyebrows, Librarian

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• 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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  Wish, World, Sometimes

  Gary D. Schmidt (2004). “Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I love the sound of a brand-new bottle of coke when you pry the lid off and it starts to fizz. Whenever I hear that sound, I think of roses, and of sitting together with someone you care about and of Romeo and Juliet waking up somewhere and saying to each other, weren't we jerks? And then having all that be over. That's what I think of when I hear the sound of a brand-new bottle of Coke being opened

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  Thinking, Rose, Together

  Gary D. Schmidt (2007). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And it really doesn't matter if we're under our desks with our hands over our heads or not, does it? No, said Mrs. Baker. It doesn't really matter. So, why are we practicing? She thought for a minute. Because it gives comfort, she said. People like to think that if they're prepared then nothing bad can really happen. And perhaps we practice because we feel as if there's nothing else we can do because sometimes it feels as if life is governed by the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.

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  Thinking, Hands, Practice

  Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.225, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Creativity is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn't very often. But when he does come around, he sits at my desk and folds his wings and I offer him whatever he wants.

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  Creativity, Wings, Doe

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• A comedy isn't about being funny," said Mrs. Baker. "We talked about this before." "A comedy is about character who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all. That's how I know." "Suppose you can't see it?" "That's the daring part," said Mrs. Baker.

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  Character, Bakers, May

  Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.262, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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  Air, Smell, Cry

  Gary D. Schmidt (2011). “Okay for Now”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When gods die, they die hard. It's not like they fade away, or grow old, or fall asleep. They die in fire and pain, and when they come out of you, they leave your guts burned. It hurts more than anything you can talk about. And maybe worst of all is, you're not sure if there will ever be another god to fill their place. Or if you'd ever want another god to fill their place. You don't want the fire to go out inside you twice.

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  Hurt, Pain, Fall

  Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I handed the test in five minutes before the end of the day. Mrs. Baker took it calmly, then reached into her bottom drawer for an enormous red pen with a wide felt tip. "Stand here and we'll see how you've done," she said, which is sort of like a dentist handing you a mirror and saying, "Sit here and watch while I drill a hole in your tooth.

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  Mirrors, The End Of The Day, Bakers

  Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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  Lying, Sound, Best Place

  Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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  Sweet, Taken, Vengeance

  Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.118, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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  Finding Yourself, My Sister, Found

  Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.234, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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  Mean, Eye, Black

  Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She came over and looked at the picture. Then she took my hand. You know what that feels like? Like what the astronauts will feel when they step onto the moon for the very first time.

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  Moon, Hands, Firsts

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• Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?

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  Want, Shut Up, Poet

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