Gary D. Schmidt Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. 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. The Wednesday Wars

2. Defeat doesn't help you to grow, I said. "It's just defeat."Mrs. Baker smiled. Two weeks ago, the Saturn V lunar rocket passed its first flight test. It's been less than ten months since we lost three astronauts, but we're still testing the next rocket, so that some day we can go to the moon and make our world a great deal bigger. She held her hands up to her face. Wouldn't Shakespeare have admired that happy ending? she whispered.Then she put the book away in her lower desk drawer.It was quiet and still in the room. You could hear the soft rain on the windows.Thank you for the cream puffs, I said.The quality of mercy is not strained, she said. The Wednesday Wars

3. You can't just skip the boring parts.""Of course I can skip the boring parts.""How do you know they're boring if you don't read them?""I can tell.""Then you can't say you've read the whole play.""I think I can live a happy life, Meryl Lee, even if I don't read the boring parts of The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.""Who knows?" she said. "Maybe you can't. The Wednesday Wars

4. You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them. I mean, so what if two roads go two ways in a wood? So what? Who cares if it made all that big a difference? What difference? And why should I have to guess what the difference is? Isn't that what he's supposed to say?Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up? Okay for Now