Alan Gratz Quotes
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All my life, I kept waiting for things to get better. For the bright promise of mañana. But a funny thing happened while I was waiting for the world to change, Chabele: It didn't. Because I didn't change it.
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You can live as a ghost, waiting for death to come, or you can dance.
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Life is but a river. It has no beginning, no middle, no end. All we are, all we are worth, is what we do while we float upon it — how we treat our fellow man.
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It was easy to see the worst of humanity, when all I saw was brutality and selfishness, and these people showed me that there was still good in the world. Even if I rarely saw it.
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That’s what libraries were for: to make sure that everybody had the same access to the same books everyone else did.
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I had managed to scare even the monsters, and when you can scare monsters, you can be sure you've become one yourself.
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I think kids are incredibly savvy readers. I think we should give them all the credit in the world. They want to know the truth.
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None of the boys were studying for the math test we had today, because none of them cared.