Adam Gidwitz

There is a certain kind of pain that can change you. Even the strongest sword, when placed in a raging fire, will…

— Adam Gidwitz

“In Hebrew, satan means an advocate of the alternative, the one who makes the arguments you don't know how to refute." Michelangelo…

— Adam Gidwitz

“Whoever destroys a single life destroys the whole world. And whoever saves a single life saves the whole world.”

— Adam Gidwitz

Home is where you can be yourself.

— Adam Gidwitz

“But Joringel had no chance to answer. For Jorinda ran at her brother and threw her arms around him and held him…

— Adam Gidwitz

“... They are to be stacked like logs, or thrown on a pyre, in the center of Paris,' Michelangelo explained. 'And they…

— Adam Gidwitz

The oven became hotter and hotter, and Hansel began to sweat. Then a delicious smell wafted to his nostrils. Oh no! he…

— Adam Gidwitz

“And I read something else," Jacob goes on. "There was this discussion of the story of Cain and Abel, from the Bible.…

— Adam Gidwitz

“She looked up, over the bandage that was nestled under her chin, and saw that the big-belly man with the red beard…

— Adam Gidwitz

“No matter how much wisdom is in a book, is it right to trade your life for it?”

— Adam Gidwitz

“When you are very pretty, people tend to remark on your looks. They smile at you more easily. They are more permissive…

— Adam Gidwitz

“Don't bring your morality around me. Morals is for people who's already got food.”

— Adam Gidwitz

“There is a wisdom in children, a kind of knowing, a kind of believing, that we, as adults, do not have. There…

— Adam Gidwitz

“Maybe you know something about young people, and maybe you don't. I, having been one myself once upon a time, know a…

— Adam Gidwitz

There is this weird thing that happens, when you stop worrying so much about what other people think of you...you suddenly start…

— Adam Gidwitz

“He’s a child. But he looks like the kind of child who has seen too much of life, who’s seen more than…

— Adam Gidwitz

You see, Hansel and Gretel don’t just show up at the end of this story. They show up. And then they get…

— Adam Gidwitz

“To review: We have a dog that's been resurrected, a peasant girl who sees the future, a supernaturally strong oblate, and a…

— Adam Gidwitz

“For a momente she [Gretel] stopped and considered following the rain's advice. But then she shook her head. "You're being foolish," Gretel…

— Adam Gidwitz

“I'd say all mirrors are magical, or can be. They show you yourself after all. Really seeing yourself, though, that's the hard…

— Adam Gidwitz

Maybe I've been wanting the wrong things.

— Adam Gidwitz

“They were amazing, fierce, beautiful children.”

— Adam Gidwitz

You see, to find the brightest wisdom one must pass through the darkest zones. And through the darkest zones there can be…

— Adam Gidwitz

When you do what you want, not what you wish...' said the first raven. 'When you no longer seek your reflection in…

— Adam Gidwitz

“Distinguishing the voice of God and the voices of those around us is no easy task. What makes you special, children, beyond…

— Adam Gidwitz