Gary D. Schmidt Quotes About Brothers

Quotes about: Brothers

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

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Brother, Mean, Class

  Gary D. Schmidt (2011). “Okay for Now”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Do you ever wonder what it's like to be so angry that you...And then something happens, and after that, everyone figures that's what you're like, and that's what you're always going to be, and so you just decide to be it? But the whole time you're thinking, Am I going to be like him? Or am I already like him? And then you get angrier, because maybe you are, and you want... He stopped. He wiped at his eyes. I'm not lying. My brother wiped at his eyes.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Brother, Lying, Eye

• I think something must happen to you when you get into eight grade. Like the Doug Swieteck's Brother Gene switches on and you become a jerk.
  Which may have been Hamlet, Prince of Denmark's problem, who, besides having a name that makes him sound like a breakfast special at Sunnyside Morning Restaurant--something between a ham slice and a three-egg omelet--didn't have the smarts to figure out that when someone takes the trouble to come back from beyond the grave to tell you that he's been murdered, it's probably behooveful to pay attention--which is the adjectival form.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Morning, Brother, Smart

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