Gary D. Schmidt

Reader, I kissed her. A quiet walk we had, she and I.

— Gary D. Schmidt

“If Mrs. Baker Hates your guts, why don't get some.”

— Gary D. Schmidt

When 1:45 came, half the class left, and Danny Hupfer whispered, "If she gives you a cream puff after we leave, I'm…

— Gary D. Schmidt

“No storm is forever.”

— Gary D. Schmidt

“Don't look so surprised. You didn't think I'd spent my whole life behind this desk, did you?" And I suddenly realized that,…

— Gary D. Schmidt

Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?

— Gary D. Schmidt

No matter what happens, there is always the business of the world to attend to.

— Gary D. Schmidt

“sometimes it feels as if life is governed by the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.”

— Gary D. Schmidt

Lizzie Bright Griffin, do you ever wish the world would just go ahead and swallow you whole?" "Sometimes I do," she said,…

— Gary D. Schmidt

“He missed him like he would miss the sun if it fell out of the sky.”

— Gary D. Schmidt

Think of the sound you make when you let go after holding your breath for a very, very long time. Think of…

— Gary D. Schmidt

“...and she ran out of the diesel combustion and right to me and we held each other and we were not empty…

— Gary D. Schmidt

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

— Gary D. Schmidt

Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and…

— Gary D. Schmidt

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

— Gary D. Schmidt

“I'm not lying.”

— Gary D. Schmidt

“The world turns and the world spins, the tide runs in and the tide runs out, and there is nothing in the…

— Gary D. Schmidt

A comedy isn’t about being funny...a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after…

— Gary D. Schmidt

“I never knew a building could hold so much inside. . . . I saw my town as if I had just…

— Gary D. Schmidt

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

— Gary D. Schmidt

“I'm a librarian," he said. "I always know what I'm talking about.”

— Gary D. Schmidt

“The world turns and the world spins, the tide runs in and the tide runs out, and there is nothing in the…

— Gary D. Schmidt

“Sometimes it’s like that. You know something good is coming, and even though it’s not even close yet, still, just knowing it’s…

— Gary D. Schmidt

“On Saturday mornings during deliveries, I'd practice picking out new words in Jane Eyre, sounding out the ones that needed sounding out—and…

— Gary D. Schmidt

“How come when you're feeling good like this, something always happens to wreck it all? How come?”

— Gary D. Schmidt