Quotes by Gary D. Schmidt

Gary D. Schmidt

…and she ran out of the diesel combustion and right to me and we held each other and we were not empty at all. “Holling,” she said. “I was so afraid I wouldn’t fine you.” “I was standing right here, Heather.” I said. “I’ll always be standing right here.

Empty

Heathers

Said

(The raindrops) played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow.

New Day

Night

Pale Yellow

A comedy isn’t about being funny,” said Mrs. Baker. “We talked about this before.” “A comedy is about character who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all. That’s how I know.” “Suppose you can’t see it?” “That’s the daring part,” said Mrs. Baker.

Bakers

Character

May

A comedy isn’t about being funny…a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all.

Character

Comedy

May

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

Blow

Light

Mother

And it really doesn’t matter if we’re under our desks with our hands over our heads or not, does it? No, said Mrs. Baker. It doesn’t really matter. So, why are we practicing? She thought for a minute. Because it gives comfort, she said. People like to think that if they’re prepared then nothing bad can really happen. And perhaps we practice because we feel as if there’s nothing else we can do because sometimes it feels as if life is governed by the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.

Hands

Practice

Thinking

Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.

Art

Book

Fire

Creativity is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn’t very often. But when he does come around, he sits at my desk and folds his wings and I offer him whatever he wants.

Creativity

Doe

Wings

Did you find yourself?” “What?” said my sister. “Did you find yourself?” “She found me,” I said.

Finding Yourself

Found

My Sister

Do you ever wonder what it’s like to be so angry that you…And then something happens, and after that, everyone figures that’s what you’re like, and that’s what you’re always going to be, and so you just decide to be it? But the whole time you’re thinking, Am I going to be like him? Or am I already like him? And then you get angrier, because maybe you are, and you want… He stopped. He wiped at his eyes. I’m not lying. My brother wiped at his eyes.

Brother

Eye

Lying

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Chumps

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Cry

Differences

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Empty

Eye

Eyebrows

Faces

Fall

Feels

Finding Yourself

Fire

Firsts

Found

Fun

Girl

Giving

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Growing Up

Hands

Happy Life

Heathers

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Hot

House

Hurt

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Quotes by Gary D. Schmidt

Gary D. Schmidt

…and she ran out of the diesel combustion and right to me and we held each other and we were not empty at all. “Holling,” she said. “I was so afraid I wouldn’t fine you.” “I was standing right here, Heather.” I said. “I’ll always be standing right here.

(The raindrops) played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow.

A comedy isn’t about being funny,” said Mrs. Baker. “We talked about this before.” “A comedy is about character who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all. That’s how I know.” “Suppose you can’t see it?” “That’s the daring part,” said Mrs. Baker.

A comedy isn’t about being funny…a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all.

Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.

Creativity is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn’t very often. But when he does come around, he sits at my desk and folds his wings and I offer him whatever he wants.

Did you find yourself?” “What?” said my sister. “Did you find yourself?” “She found me,” I said.

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