David Klass Quotes

• Even if it’s dangerous, and painful, and so very, very lonely. One must go on fighting- It is the only honorable thing to do

  David Klass

  Lonely, Fighting, Goes On

  David Klass (2007). “You Don't Know Me”, p.216, Macmillan

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• You may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future.

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  Past, May, My Future

  David Klass (2007). “You Don't Know Me”, p.7, Macmillan

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• You don't know me at all. You don't know the first thing about me. You don't know where I'm writing this from. You don't know what I look like. You have no power over me. What do you think I look like? Skinny? Freckles? Wire-rimmed glasses over brown eyes? No, I don't think so. Better look again. Deeper. It's like a kaleidoscope, isn't it? One minute I'm short, the next minute tall, one minute I'm geeky, one minute studly, my shape constantly changes, and the only thing that stays constant is my brown eyes. Watching you.

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  Writing, Eye, Thinking

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• You stand for nothing. You respect nobody. The music you dance to is devoid of beauty, its lyrics empty of humor or cleverness.

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  Empty, Cleverness

  David Klass (2007). “You Don't Know Me”, p.206, Macmillan

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• I don't play the tuba. The tuba plays me. My tuba is not actually a tuba, because it has never produced a musical sound. It is actually a giant frog pretending to be a tuba.

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  Play, Musical, Sound

  David Klass (2007). “You Don't Know Me”, p.14, Macmillan

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• But something cannot be made out of nothing. Dust rose in the air, caught the rays of the sun for a brief moment and sparkled, and then returned to the earth as mere dust.

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  Air, Dust, Rose

  David Klass (2007). “You Don't Know Me”, p.199, Macmillan

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• I'm the beacon of hope, and I have mental powers you never dreamed of. Now be quiet.

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  Hope, Quiet, Beacons

  David Klass (2008). “Firestorm: The Caretaker Trilogy:”, p.381, Macmillan

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• Are you by any chance acquainted with the words 'steel toe'? Or do the words 'permanent dent' mean anything to you?" My locker door is not intimidated. "My grandfather was a vault at Fort Knox, and if you try to dent me with a kick you will only tear some ligament that will never mend.

  David Klass

  Mean, Doors, Grandfather

  David Klass (2007). “You Don't Know Me”, p.176, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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