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1 " Davy once asked me if I thought it was better to be a has-been than a never was, but maybe it doesn't make much of a difference. In the end, people are just people, and the only things that matter are whether they are good or bad, loving or unloving, loved or unloved. "
― Todd Strasser , Famous
2 " The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real. "
― Todd Strasser
3 " It's weird when you wake of from a bad dream and everything is still bad. "
― Todd Strasser , Blood on My Hands (Thrillogy, #2)
4 " But then again, impossible never became rumour, did it? "
― Todd Strasser , Wish You Were Dead (Thrillogy, #1)
5 " Why do we believe one stranger and not another? "
6 " What does it take to be a writer? 1) Foolhardily believing that someone might actually be interested in reading what you've written. 2) Spending an enormous amount of time writing it as well as you can. 3) Accepting that, at best, you'll probably be paid something around 25 cents an hour for your efforts. "
7 " Some people get more of a chance to show who they are. Other people never get the chance. "
8 " Sometimes you know when someone is telling you the truth. "
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― Todd Strasser , Help! I'm Trapped in My Sister's Body!
10 " It was if The Wave had taken on a life of its own and now he and his students were literally riding it. "
11 " It condemned The Wave as a dangerous and mindless movement that suppressed freedom of speech and thought and ran against everything the country was founded on. "
12 " Was it the weakness of a man that made him want to ignore the darker side of his fellow human beings? "
13 " Of course it would be great to sell lots and lots of copies of The Beast of Cretacea. But the bottom line for me is to sell enough copies to convince my publisher to let me do a sequel. I spent three years creating the world of Cretacea and the personalities of all the characters who inhabit it. All I want to do now is go back. "
14 " You're gonna turn me into one of those fat, useless, contented cats," Binx said. "
― Todd Strasser , Hocus Pocus: Junior Novelization
15 " There's more to life then living, so hold on. "
16 " fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice, shame on me. "
― Todd Strasser , Count Your Blessings (Mob Princess, #3)
17 " If you've never known someone your own age who's died, you can't imagine what it feels like. It's as if you were walking on a glass floor and it suddenly shatters and now you're falling and falling and there's broken glass in the air all around you and no bottom in sight. "
18 " cant get there from here "
― Todd Strasser , Can't Get There from Here
19 " This, then, is the story of what I learned. It is told in many voices, in words far more eloquent and raw than I could have thought on my own. It is a story of heartbreak and fear and regret. But mostly it is a warning. Violence comes in many forms- guns, fists, and words of hate and contempt. Unless we change the way we treat others in school and out, there will be more- and more horrible- tragedies. "
― Todd Strasser , Give a Boy a Gun
20 " Was it a weakness of man that made him want to ignore the darker side of his fellow human beings? "
― Todd Strasser , The Wave
