Quotes from Gordon Korman

She was salted in the ladies' room?

He also agrees to raise the seat four inches so I'll be able to see the road in front of me.

Mozart, the most famous Wiener of all time.

That's the whole point of being rich," I explain patiently. "What good is it if nobody's jealous?

It's kind of a joke. It was supposed to be 'Come alive with the Pepsi generation.' But it actually translates more like 'Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the grave.

Another thing about the new and improved Coco Nerd: it's unparkable. Those external tailpipes make it as wide as a ferryboat. But I finally get it jammed in between Emma's Prius and the pickup truck belonging to the Elias farm. The door opens and I have about four inches of clearance to squeeze myself through.

He raced down the line and dove into first base just ahead of the tag.

She's such a cheerleader for this wellness freak show that anything against the place has to be a rotten lie. To her, meditation is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

If there is a Mount Everest," I remind him. "We learned about it in school, so it might be total baloney.

I'm not retiring," I tell her. "Sign me up for next year.

I stomp away from him. I refuse to spend my time with anybody who doesn't think this is the end of the world. If I have to listen to a guy putting a positive spin on this, my head is probably going to explode. At this moment, I want nothing but gloom, despair, negativity, and complaining.

Then a crisis arose. Feldstein imposed a school-wide, comprehensive locker ban on the project.

For the first time in its illustrious 136-year history, the Global Kennel Society postponed its main event due to green slime. All the Best

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Then, in front of the entire Manhattan Coliseum, the winning handler at Global wrapped her arms around Griffin and kissed him.

How many people ever get a do-over at life? Falling on my head was the best thing that ever happened to me.

It had been a seven-year string of bad luck, ever since their parents died in that house fire.

There are a lot of Tater Tots in the world. I intend to stick around to eat my share.

Our whole lives we were stuck in a town the size of a postage stamp

want a refund from ancestry.com. They traced my family all the way back to the revolution. And in all those forefathers and foremothers, aunts, uncles, and cousins, there was nobody like me.

What a difference a few months make. Back then I had such a high opinion of the great Chase Ambrose that I considered myself untouchable. Now it's the opposite. I hate myself so much that there's no way any judge could hate me more.

Actually, Chase is recalling more and more these days. He's still got a long way to go before his amnesia is totally cured. But every now and then, I'll see him in the school halls, gray in the face and haunted, and I know he's just remembered some horrible thing he did in his former life. Poor guy.

When you're on top, you've got the confidence. The confidence gives you the attitude. And the attitude is what keeps you on top.

Once the power is hooked up, the instant I touch the frayed ends of the starter wires, the pool truck roars to life. It's one of the most satisfying sounds I've ever heard.