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1 " Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still. "
― Gary D. Schmidt , The Wednesday Wars
2 " I almost cried. But I didn't, because if you're in seventh grade and you cry while wearing a blue floral cape and yellow tights with white feathers on the butt, you just have to curl up and die somewhere in a dark alley. "
3 " You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them. I mean, so what if two roads go two ways in a wood? So what? Who cares if it made all that big a difference? What difference? And why should I have to guess what the difference is? Isn't that what he's supposed to say?Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up? "
― Gary D. Schmidt , Okay for Now
4 " OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything. "
5 " Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches. "
― Gary D. Schmidt , Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
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― Gary D. Schmidt
7 " Whatever it means to be a friend, taking a black eye for someone has to be in it. "
8 " You know one thing that Mr. Powell taught me? He taught me that sometimes, art can make you forget everything else all around you. That's what are can do. "
9 " Would you have left a guy being beat up to go find a teacher?' I asked.My father, he wiped his hand across his face, and what was left behind was a smile.Really, a smile.'Not in a million years,' he said. "
10 " He missed him like he would miss the sun if it fell out of the sky. "
― Gary D. Schmidt , First Boy
11 " He felt it deep, like a stone too big to heft out of the garden. He just had to how around it and make do. "
12 " We carry our childhood with us. "
13 " Mr. Ferris didn't say anything the whole time. He sat next to me and listened. And when I finished, I looked at him.He was crying. I'm not lying. He was crying.I don't think it was because how hard I hit him.I know how the Black-Backed Gull feels when he looks up into the sky.Maybe, somehow, Mr. Ferris does too. "
14 " I know. That sounds like a lie. But Presbyterians know that every so often a lie isn't all that bad, and I figured that this was about the best place it could happen. "
15 " It means, Doug Swieteck, that in this class, you are not your brother. "
16 " Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven. "
― Gary D. Schmidt , Pilgrim's Progress
17 " Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles. "
18 " Reader, I kissed her. A quiet walk we had, she and I. "
19 " A southwest blow on ye and blister you all o'er!''The red plague rid you!''Toads, beetles, bats, light on you!''As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed with raven's feather from unwholesome fen drop on you.''Strange stuff''Thou jesting monkey thou''Apes with foreheads villainous low''Pied ninny''Blind mole...' -The Caliban Curses "
20 " There are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them... Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up? "
