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81 " Toads, beetles, bats. "
― Gary D. Schmidt , The Wednesday Wars
82 " Here’s how you practice shrieking like an insane woman who has been locked in an attic for a great many years:You stand in the middle of the field.You look around to be sure that no one is going to hear you.You breathe in a couple of times to get as much air in your chest as you can.You stretch your neck up like the Great Esquimaux Curlew.You imagine that it’s Game Seven of the World Series and it’s the bottom of the ninth and Joe Pepitone is rounding third base and the throw is coming in and the catcher has his glove up waiting for the ball and Joe Pepitone is probably going to be out and the game will be over and the Yankees will lose.Then you let out your shriek, because that’s how everyone in Yankee Stadium would be shrieking right then.That’s how you practice shrieking like an insane woman who has been locked in an attic for a great many years. And you keep doing it over and over again until all the birds in Marysville have flown away. "
― Gary D. Schmidt , Okay for Now
83 " I think he became a man who brought peace and wisdom to hi world, because he knew about war and folly. I think that he loved greatly, because he had seen what lost love is. And I think he came to know, too, that he was loved greatly." She looked at the strawberry in her hands. "But I thought you didn't want me to tell you your future. "
84 " Spring break! Were there any two words ever put together that make a more beautiful sound? "
85 " Sometimes it’s like that. You know something good is coming, and even though it’s not even close yet, still, just knowing it’s coming is enough to make you snort and nicker. Sort of. "
― Gary D. Schmidt , Orbiting Jupiter
86 " I'm not lying. "
87 " Doug Swieteck,' Mr. Ferris said, 'do you know the basic principle of physical science?'A trick?'No,' I said, sort of slow.'The basic principle of physical science is this: no two bodies can occupy the same space at the same time. Do you understand that?''I think so,' I said.'Do you understand what the principle means?'I shook my head. 'It means, Doug Swieteck, that in this class, you are not your brother. "
88 " At the happy ending of the Tempest, Prospero brings the kind back togeter with his son, and finds Miranda's true love and punishes the bad duke and frees Ariel and becomes a duke himself again. Everyone - except Caliban - is happy, and everyone is forgiven, and everyone is fine, and they all sail away on calm seas. Happy endings. That's how it is in Shakespeare. But Shakespeare was wrong. Sometimes there isn't a Prospero to make everything fine again. And sometimes the quality of mercy is strained. "
― Gary D. Schmidt , Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
89 " But he can't love her just for himself. He has to love her for her, too. That means he has to learn to let her live the life that can come to her with a new home. "
90 " Terrific. "
91 " I'm a librarian. I always know what I'm talking about "
92 " 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. "
93 " Talk is only silence that ain't workin' well. "
― Gary D. Schmidt , First Boy
94 " Just swell. "
95 " It was a Saturday that you somehow knew was going to be one of the last beautiful days of fall. The sun was shining hot, like it thought it was still July, and November drizzles were a whole season away. The sky was blue and a few white clouds were easing themselves along like they didn't care. The grass was warm and sweet, like April, but the trees hadn't forgotten it was October. They were all on fire, and behind their leaves, the birds were singing their last songs. "
96 " I'm a librarian," he said. "I always know what I'm talking about. "
97 " A heart that has lost knows every other heart that has lost. Late and soon, loss is all the same. "
― Gary D. Schmidt , Trouble
98 " A comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all. "
99 " I never knew a building could hold so much inside.. . . I saw my town as if I had just arrived. It was as if I was waking up. You see houses and buildings every day, and you walk by them on your way to something else, and you hardly see. You hardly notice they're even there, mostly because there's something else going on right in front of your face. But when the town itself becomes the thing that is going on right in front of your face, it all changes, and you're not just looking at a house but at what's happened in that house before you were born. "
100 " Make good decisions and remember who you are." "Make good decisions and remember who loves you. "
― Gary D. Schmidt , Pay Attention, Carter Jones