Alan Gratz Quotes

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.

Alan Gratz

• Change
• Waiting
• Happened

You can live as a ghost, waiting for death to come, or you can dance.

Alan Gratz

• Live
• Dance
• Waiting

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.

Alan Gratz

• World
• Good
• Selfishness

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.

Alan Gratz

• Life
• River
• We Are

That’s what libraries were for: to make sure that everybody had the same access to the same books everyone else did.

Alan Gratz

• Books
• Access
• Libraries

I had managed to scare even the monsters, and when you can scare monsters, you can be sure you've become one yourself.

Alan Gratz

• Become
• Scare
• Monsters

None of the boys were studying for the math test we had today, because none of them cared.

Alan Gratz

• Math
• Test
• Studying

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.

Alan Gratz

• Kids
• Truth
• Know

If no one saw them, no one could help them. And maybe the world needed to see what was really happening here.

Alan Gratz

• Help
• Happening
• saw

Good books shouldn’t be hidden away. They should be read by as many people as many times as possible.

Alan Gratz

• People
• Books
• Read