Gary D. Schmidt Quotes

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

I almost cried. But I didn't, because if you're in seventh grade and you cry while wearing a blue floral cape and yellow tights with white feathers on the butt, you just have to curl up and die somewhere in a dark alley.

OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.

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

more to be a human being with

There are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them... Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?

You know one thing that Mr. Powell taught me? He taught me that sometimes, art can make you forget everything else all around you. That's what are can do.

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

There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power.

Lizzie Bright Griffin, do you ever wish the world would just go ahead and swallow you whole?"

"Sometimes I do," she said, and then smiled. "but sometimes I figure I should just go ahead and swallow it.