15 quotes found
“Keep marching boys and girls. Keep marching”
“Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours”
“Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.”
“The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you”
“Sure it will hurt. But so what? Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of anything, even pain.”
“remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not.”
“Shut up!" I say, holding my hands to my ears. "Shut up!"But the stupid gummy won't shut up; he's trying to tell me something important even though I'm covering my ears and I don't want to hear it a...”
“I used to belong to a family unit, with a foster mom and dad and my little sister, Bean, but that's over and I don't want to talk about what happened , or how unfair it was. Not yet. The less said ...”
“I believe that we have the ability to change our lives using our imaginations. Imagination is a musclethe more you use it, the stronger it gets.”
“I think in some ways it's like that for all of us, living with the ghosts of things that used to be, or never were. We're all of us haunted by yesterday, and we got no choice but to keep marching i...”
“You ever notice how long it takes for things to happen when you know they're supposed to happen? My fake Walkman has a built-in alarm, and I set it for two in the morning and wear the headphones to...”
“I know who the real hero is, and it isn't me or brave Lanaya. It's an old man with a white beard and a walking stick and a heart so big it won't let him stop thinking he can change the world by wri...”
“I'm thinking maybe letting the latches burn is the right idea. Let everything burn until there's nothing left but ashes and cool rain.”
“I started writing stories in sixth grade. But writing wasn't cool, like being good at sports, or being part of the in crowd, or winning fights on the playground.”
“I am an avid fisherman, and my daily schedule is to write in the morning and then go fishing in the afternoon. In Maine, I fish mostly for stripers, and in the Florida Keys, I go after all kinds of...”
