Gary D. Schmidt Quotes
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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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Mr. Powell raised an eyebrow. 'I'm a librarian,' he said. 'I always know what I'm talking about.
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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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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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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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The world is Trouble...and Grace. That is all there is.
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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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The light made the snowballs look yellow. Or at least I hoped that was the cause.
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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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Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles.
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We were both chumps. But you know what? It's not so bad when you're chumps together.