Quotes from Jennifer L. Holm

Almost dying is awfully easy. It's the living that's hard.

Everyone things children are sweet as Necco Wafers, but I've lived long enough to know the truth: kids are rotten. The only difference between grown-ups and kids is that grown-ups go to jail for murder. Kids get away with it.

I'm a jellyfish glowing in the dark sea, bright and brilliant, just waiting to be discovered.

Miss Hepplewhite looked pained. "Miss Peck," she said at last, "a young lady should never, ever, under any circumstances whatsoever, run. Should you find yourself in a situation where you are at risk, it is always preferable to faint.

Like me!" I said. "I have to work hard, too. Why, I haven't thrown manure in over two months!

Papa always said you make your own luck. And maybe you do.

This, I thought, was true love. Someone who made you happy without saying a word.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself. —Galileo Galilei

What is it with folks always talking about where they're from? You could grow up in a muddy ditch, but if it's your muddy ditch, then it's gotta be the swellest muddy ditch ever.

I think what you wear on Halloween is important. It says something about you--who you are and what you want to be. There's got to be a reason so many girls go around dressed as princesses and witches.

Life is precious and we don't realize that at the time.

Three Meatloaf Haikus Oh yucky meatloaf sitting under the hot lights so gray and gristly. Nothing tastes worse than you, not cauliflower or even lima beans. And what is that weird thing sticking out--a whisker? hair? a rubber band?

He alone had the courage to do what was right.

Mr.Clayton? Didn't you see her ears? You mean ears turning bright red means you're in love? I don't know, he mumbles, and looks down, his ears are bright red.

It's the cycle of life," I say, remembering Starlily's words. "Things need to move forward, not backward.

Take the planarian flatworm. You can slice it in two and each part will grow into a new worm. The hydra, a freshwater creature, can actually regenerate body parts, and the sea anemone doesn't appear to experience senescence at all." I

There is a bright full moon, and boats in the harbor are lit up and dancing in the inky water.

Keep your sunny side up

I thought u said u could swim like a fish -A dead one!

But May Amelia, Miss EcEwing says, Proper Young Ladies don't go gallivanting around the world on ships. Well I sure ain't no Proper Young Lady Miss McEwing, you can ask any of my brothers here. And every child starts laughing and Wilbert laughs so hard he falls off his chair. Miss EcEwing tries to look serious, but finally her eyes crinkle merrily and she laughs too.

The point of having a hypothesis is not to be right. It's about the data. Sometimes the data takes you in a direction you never imagined, and you have an interesting result.

Is that a scalp?" I whispered to Mr. Swan. Mr. Swan blinked. "A scalp?" "Yes, a scalp. From some unfortunate pioneer." "It's the sole of an old shoe," Mr. Russel grunted. "I beg your pardon?" Chief Toke fingered the leather. "A shoe. He likes to carry it around. Used to be mine." Mr. Russel spit a wad of tobacco, and it barely missed my toe. It seemed that the loathsome habits of the States had been carried to the frontier. "I see," I said, although I clearly did not.

I didn't think I would end up here." "Me neither.

Keer-ukso looked up at the sky in mock irritation. "No, do not ask me, best friend and busiess partner, if I want coffee?