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41 " I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.” Oscar Wilde / #Hole_in_my_Life By Jack Gantos "
― Jack Gantos , Hole in My Life
42 " Miss Volker,” I said about as politely as I knew how, “do you think you will outlast the rest of these original people?” “I have to,” she said. “I made a promise to Eleanor Roosevelt to see them to their graves, and I can’t drop dead on the job—so let’s get going. "
― Jack Gantos , Dead End in Norvelt
43 " Well, don’t fart or you’ll scare the deer,” he continued seriously. “They have very sensitive noses and ears. "
44 " chair wouldn’t rock. So I heaved myself from side to side. It still didn’t move. I gripped the arms and jerked myself around and hung way out over the arms like some rodeo rider on a wild bull. "
― Jack Gantos , Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key (Joey Pigza, #1)
45 " when we passed the Hells Angels clubhouse they were giving cans of beer out to little kids. “Repeat after me,” ordered a drunken Hells Angel dressed as a Viking warrior. “When I grow up I’m going to be a badass. "
46 " I know I’m not perfect, but I didn’t think it was fair that they told me one thing and wrote down another. "
47 " Money is just a way of measuring work, but you don’t need money if everyone agrees that trading one kind of work for another will do just as well. "
48 " These folks zigged when the rest of the world zagged. And once you cross the line, there's no coming back. Mark my words. "
― Jack Gantos
49 " We are not so much defined by the wars we fight across the globe, but by the wars we have fought within ourselves as a nation. "
― Jack Gantos , From Norvelt to Nowhere
50 " There were tiny loaves for dolls, and warm dinner rolls, and long French bread, and braided rings of bread, and thick loaves as big and round as wagon wheels, and even entire wheat-colored cottages of crusty bread which when you lived in them were more like yeasty caves in a gigantic mountain of bread, and all you had to do in order to feed your self in heaven was pull a hank of soft, moist bread right out of the wall. "
51 " Well I'm looking at history," she said, pointing at me. "You used to be a friend, but now you stink as a friend! I came here to give you a second chance and you make me smell the crotch of an old book. "
52 " I might have been slight-but I was smart and cagey. "
53 " Title Page Dedication "
54 " An obit for a house?" he questioned as he relit his pipe. "Has she lost her mind?""No," I said. "She just speaks her mind.""Amen to that," he remarked. "
55 " School was finally out and I was standing "
56 " He’s so stupid. Honestly, when he makes alphabet soup it spells out D-U-M-B. "
57 " Oh sweet cheeze-us!” I wailed, and dropped butt-first onto the table. “Ohhh! Cheeze-us-crust!” I "
58 " You'll see...Everyone foolishly goes through hating their past—when they should realize it is the one true thing you have. "
― Jack Gantos , The Trouble in Me
59 " The house is a bit of a monster, and slowly you belong to it and begin to function in it like living furniture that gets rearranged—you become another gear inside the machine of the house, or a hand puppet to your parents. You won't find freedom until you find yourself in a place that doesn't own you. "
60 " When it came to my heart I felt everything okay, but when I tried to express my feelings the words came out of me like invisible ink. "