Quotes from Gordon Korman

I'm supposed to talk some sense into you," she told me. "But what I really want to say is congratulations. You did the right thing." "The police don't think so." "Typical," she clucked. "Getting hung up on the numbers on your birth certificate when you probably saved a life." "They made

That Mesozoic mama's boy wouldn't have lasted five seconds in the Cretaceous period.

We're gifted," I explained.

And how much do I care about hurting their delicate feelings? Well, you could fit that inside the nucleus of a carbon atom.

anger is the emotion of a lesser person.

You worry about the life, Amber shoots back. I'll handle the revenge.

That was when I started to worry about what was going to happen to me.

Mrs. Donnelly lived here with her daughter, Sophie. And, of course, me, now. Sophie

You didn't have to stab yourself on stage. All that blood —" "It was ketchup." "It was gross

And now I'm supposed to believe that the leader of the three, Alpha Rat, is a good guy because he fell on his head.

We're not criminals. We're regular kids, like everybody else. Still, you probably don't want to mess with us . . . just to be on the safe side.

Hey," I shoot back, "you can talk trash about me, but lay off my Tater Tots!

Registration Day' by Gavin Gunhold (1899— ) Toronto Review of Poetry, 1947 On registration day at taxidermy school I distinctly saw the eyes of the stuffed moose Move.

They agreed it was wrong to throw the stick, but insisted that Chase couldn't have predicted it would result in serious injury. Ha! The real reason was that Chase was the town sports hero—and the son of the last town sports hero. Chase's dad had a lot of admirers on that board. And my family didn't.

Spider-Man had Peter Parker.

The Janus, the Tomas, the Ekaterina, and the Lucian!

or the fool who does something stupid and gets everybody killed.

My father is considered the smartest man in the world. But when it comes to the unplugged life, I'm the brains of the family.

A paper chain can be done when it hits a certain number of links. But tolerance is a project you always have to keep working at.

Why is it so hard to understand that we have to find a way to live together?

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, I'll conk you with this pet carrier!

stranger stares back at me.

My dad always uses this expression: If it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck.

Oh, we're not offended," Cassandra assured him. "We're just not men.