Quotes from Andrew Clements

There's so much made of the exceptional and the celebrity, the famous, and the wannabees.

Books and people are hard to compare.

Alec had comfort books—stories so familiar that they made reading feel like coasting downhill on a bike, or water-skiing on a smooth lake.

if you are smart enough, you can look at anything and think of twenty possible ways that is might be useful at some point in the future, so you just keep it.

WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.

FIFTH GRADE WAS different. That was the year to get ready for middle school. Fifth grade meant passing classes. It meant no morning recess. It meant real letter grades on your report cards. But most of all, it meant Mrs. Granger.

difference, and…and stuff." Alec stopped talking. His hands were cold and clammy. He felt like he'd just said way, way too much about the stupid sign. Nina sat down kitty-corner from him, and Alec noticed that she looked almost the same as

Only once. She called, asked could we send her two thousand dollars—two thousand more than the four she already stole when she left.

William Shakespeare

gray pennies that had been made out of steel instead of copper during the Second World War.

And at that second, Greg felt like Maura's smile had to be worth at least a million dollars.

And until you're sure there's a cage around a tiger, it's pretty dumb to dangle meat in front of it. Right?

So another thing I learn is that Sherlock Holmes always finds the right clue, and I don't.

B)ut really, it doesn't matter how big the army is—we just have to deal with the enemies at the very front...We don't have to defeat a whole army all at once. If we fight smart and we don't panic, we'll be good.

And it was the same with the Black Cauldron movie—the book was ten times better.

Aha. The mom doesn't know. She's fishing. This next part has to be just right, or I'm blacklisted by the mother and hated by the daughter. The first would be an inconvenience; the second would be a tragedy.

chart. Everything he had heard about this teacher was true—don't mess around with The Lone Granger.

they're both nice . . . kind of.

philosopher named Descartes

THINGS NOT SEEN chapter

PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION, UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.

But Jordan's violin was especially deadly. It screeched like a frightened owl. Mr. Graisha glared at her, snapping his baton up and down, side to side, fighting to keep all twenty-three students playing in unison. It was a losing battle. He glanced up at the clock and then waved both arms as if he needed to stop a freight train.

Like I said before, I'm ten now, so I've had some time to figure out some stuff.

instantly peeled back the wrapper and bit off half the granola bar