Gary D. Schmidt Quotes

“It means, Doug Swieteck, that in this class, you are not your brother.”

“You know, when someone has been crying, something gets left in the air. It's not something you can see or smell, or feel. Or draw. But it's there.”

“Just swell.”

“Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.”

“Mrs. Daugherty was keeping my bowl of cream of wheat hot, and she had a special treat with it, she said. It was bananas.

In the whole story of the world, bananas have never once been a special treat.”

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

“You know how teachers are. If they get you to take out a book they love too, they're yours for life.”

“Whatever it means to be a friend, taking a black eye for someone has to be in it.”

“If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but what they would have been alive for is the question Shakespeare wants us to answer.”

“The light made the snowballs look yellow. Or at least I hoped that was the cause.”

“The world is Trouble… and Grace. That is all there is.”