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41 " I began to understand that they are not wrong or right—they just are. Wolves don't know they are wolves. That's a name we have put on them, something we have done. I do not know how wolves think of themselves, nor does anybody, but I did know and still know that it was wrong to think they should be the way I wanted them to be. "
― Gary Paulsen , Woodsong
42 " Well, he’d actually never heard anybody say it. But he felt that it should be true. There "
― Gary Paulsen , Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
43 " There is always a solution. For everything. Always. Sometimes it isn't pretty and takes a little longer, but there is still a solution. "
― Gary Paulsen , The Schernoff Discoveries
44 " If you look at it from the right point of view, lying is just good manners. "
― Gary Paulsen , Liar, Liar: The Theory, Practice and Destructive Properties of Deception (Liar, Liar, #1)
45 " None of that used to be in Brian and now it was a part of him, a changed part of him, a grown part of him, and the two things, his mind and his body, had come together as well, had made a connection with each other that he didn’t quite understand "
46 " While now and then you hear somebody talking about how “. . . beautiful and elegant the predator-prey relationship is, how natural and proper the death of the prey is,” it is usually so much misunderstood balderdash by people who have not witnessed it very many times, or worse, by people who have witnessed only highly edited versions on film. "
― Gary Paulsen , This Side of Wild: Mutts, Mares, and Laughing Dinosaurs
47 " But I’m your brother.” Daniel sounded genuinely wounded. “You,” she announced, “are a turd in the punch bowl of life. "
48 " He had forgotten the most important thing about living in the wilderness, the one thing he'd thought he would never forget-expect the unexpected. What you didn't think would get you, would get you. Plan on the worst and be happy when it didn't come. "
― Gary Paulsen , Brian's Return (Brian's Saga, #4)
49 " He was out of food, but he could look tomorrow and he could build a signal fire tomorrow and get more wood tomorrow . . . The "
50 " about four inches down, he suddenly came into a small chamber in the cool-damp sand and there lay eggs, many eggs, almost perfectly round eggs the size of table tennis balls, and he laughed then because he knew. It had been a turtle. "
51 " It must have been a snapper "
52 " He widened the hole with his finger and looked inside. "
53 " moose was a moose. There "
54 " No, not secrets so much as just the Secret. What he knew and had not told anybody, what he knew about his mother that had caused the divorce, what he knew, what he knew--- the Secret. "
55 " I wish I had a dollar for every hour I've spent in the library," he always says. I have to agree- we'd probably never have to worry about money again. "
― Gary Paulsen , Notes from the Dog
56 " he’s not stupid, he’s just not observant. "
57 " As if my whole life up to that time had somehow been safe and now I would ruin all that because, you know, catamarans flip over. "
― Gary Paulsen , Caught by the Sea: My Life on Boats
58 " I know that my life on boats has been about this: not the sailing or the sea so much as learning about self. And almost every boat I have had has taught me something. "
59 " But life has a way of pulling the rug out from under you just when you need it least, which is what they like to call growing, I guess, but as far as I'm concerned you can have it. It seems like everything they call growing up has to jerk your guts out and just about wreck you and I've never been able to understand why that's supposed to be good for you. "
― Gary Paulsen , The Foxman
60 " Never assume anything, expect the unexpected, be ready for everything all the time. And "