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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When 1:45 came, half the class left, and Danny Hupfer whispered, "If she gives you a cream puff after we leave, I'm going to kill you" - which was not something that someone headed off to prepare for his bar mitzvah should be thinking. When 1:55 came and the other half of the class left, Meryl Lee whispered, "If she gives you one after we leave, I'm going to do Number 408 to you." I didn't remember what Number 408 was, but it was probably pretty close to what Danny Hupfer had promised. Even Mai Thi looked at me with narrowed eyes and said, "I know your home." Which sounded pretty ominous.

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  Eye, Home, Thinking

  Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.31, 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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• Maybe the first time that you know you really care about something is when you think about it not being there,and when you know-you really know-that the emptinessis as much as inside you as outside you.For it falls out,that what we have we prize not to the worth whiles we enjoy it;but being lacked and lost,why,then we rack the value,then we find the virtue that possesion would not show us while it was ours.That's when I knew for the first time that I really did love my sister.

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  Fall, Thinking, Care

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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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• You can't just skip the boring parts." "Of course I can skip the boring parts." "How do you know they're boring if you don't read them?" "I can tell." "Then you can't say you've read the whole play." "I think I can live a happy life, Meryl Lee, even if I don't read the boring parts of The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark." "Who knows?" she said. "Maybe you can't.

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  Happy Life, Thinking, Play

  Gary D. Schmidt (2007). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.215, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Think of the sound you make when you let go after holding your breath for a very, very long time. Think of the gladdest sound you know: the sound of dawn on the first day of spring break, the sound of a bottle of Coke opening, the sound of a crowd cheering in your ears because you're coming down to the last part of a race--and you're ahead. Think of the sound of water over stones in a cold stream, and the sound of wind through green trees on a late May afternoon in Central Park. Think of the sound of a bus coming into the station carrying someone you love. Then put all those together.

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  Letting Go, Cheer, Spring

  Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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