Maybe the Snowy Heron is going to come off pretty badly when the planes come together. Maybe. But he's still proud and beautiful. His head is high, a…

- Gary D. Schmidt

If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but what they would have been alive for is the question Shakespeare wants…

- Gary D. Schmidt

The world is Trouble...and Grace. That is all there is.

- Gary D. Schmidt

I handed the test in five minutes before the end of the day. Mrs. Baker took it calmly, then reached into her bottom drawer for an enormous red pen w…

- 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 world more beautiful and more wonderful in a…

- 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 anything.

- Gary D. Schmidt

We were both chumps. But you know what? It's not so bad when you're chumps together.

- 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 good man.

- Gary D. Schmidt