Quotes from Gordon Korman

All at once, Darren's voice called, I've got it! It's here!

Justice and fairness aren't just part of the social studies curriculum, you know. They're the building blocks of our entire society.

Our fans are great; our team is nifty! We're going to get blown out by fifty!

Hey, things like that happen at the Academy too," I insisted, almost triumphantly. "Last year the freezers failed so there was no ice for"—the wind went out of my sails as I realized how lame this was going to sound—"the sushi bar." He nodded sympathetically. "You guys should get T-shirts made. You know: I Survived the Sushi Crisis.

But a dead man doesn't care what uniform he's wearing.

Hypothesis: Intentional or not, movement to a beat = dancing.

It seems like cheating somehow, breaking some overarching Law of the Way Things Are Supposed to Be.

During construction, when a worker died, his body was built right into the Wall itself. No one knew how many corpses lay within the stone and mortar, but some estimates ran as high as three million souls.

You're going to break your idiot neck one day, or someone's going to break it for you.

As I run, hot tears of shame are streaming down my face. Since my accident, I've heard a lot about the person I used to be. Never did I imagine this. I sprint harder, accelerating onto the sidewalk, outpacing even the most intense drills from practice. It's no problem escaping Aaron and Bear. But I'll never be able to get away from myself.

Maybe they were. Very little was beyond Noah's capabilities when he wasn't mounting a concerted effort to flunk.

But here, two thousand miles from home, there was a real shipwreck, a real hope. A choice big enough to change our lives forever.

What's a starbuck?

It's taco night at Portland Street.

You know how eighth graders are anti-everything? Well, sixth graders are the opposite of that. They're super gung ho, since being in middle school is still a big deal for them. Give them a year—they'll wise up.

Just because you've got anger management problems doesn't mean there isn't plenty to be ticked off about.

Challenge isn't going to come from any curriculum, no matter how hard they make it. It's going to come from life.

There was no logical explanation for what I did. It had to come from my DNA. That's

It's like living your whole life without ever looking in a mirror, Amy thought, and suddenly you see your reflection, and you're a monster.

I burst out with, "Aaron—Bear—" The names are unfamiliar on my tongue, like I've never spoken them before.

Pick on someone your own size!" I shot back, which was probably stupid because there weren't any sumo wrestlers in our neighborhood.

You didn't argue with Griffin when there was a plan involved. In this town, Griffin Bing was The Man With The Plan.

Noah stepped forward for a closer look. "If it's a girl," he said finally, "then what's that?" And we could all see exactly what he was pointing at.

Your jokes aren't even funny. What is this thing, anyway?' 'That's the beauty of it!' Oliver crows. 'It's nothing?just some piece of junk from he supply closet. But you're freaking out because it could be anything.' 'Which it isn't,' I remind him. 'Exactly! The nothing becomes something because of how you react to it!