Quotes from Gordon Korman

Mr. Huber was 10 percent teacher and 90 percent prison guard, hard-muscled and tough. He hauled Griffin's foot out of the garbage, dropped the crumpled paper airplane in its place, and uttered a single word: "Sit.

started to notice, but they think it's funny. Aaron and Bear don't. And how much do I care about hurting their delicate feelings? Well, you could fit that inside the nucleus of a

They think giving us sugar is like sprinkling water on the Gremlins.

This is an awful thing that's happened to you, but it's also presenting you with a rare opportunity. You have the chance to rebuild yourself from the ground up, to make a completely fresh start. Don't

Football. Here's a surprise: I like it. That means everything didn't change when I fell on my head. It proves that you can be an athlete and a video club kid at the same time. Not in my case, obviously. Video club invited me to get lost. But it's possible to be both. I have no idea why more people don't do it. Maybe it's because the jocks will never find out if they enjoy doing something artsy because they'll never try it. And the arts kids feel the same way about sports.

never underestimate the power of the forces stacked against you.

Bear's eyes narrow. "Exactly how much do you remember about the Graybeard Motel?" "Nothing," I reply honestly. He grins. "If you want to go there when you don't have to, you didn't just scramble your brains. You knocked them out completely

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

You children have created quite a stir in the hunt. Why? asked Amy. We've outsmarted a few people, but I don't think we're winning. She paused. Are we? Perhaps not, but you're younger than the rest of us, with fewer resources, no branch to support you, and almost zero knowledge of our family history. Many predicted you wouldn't last a week. Yet here you are, right in the thick of things.

he's a menace to society

That's all your life is worth? Twenty bucks?

Down there, people would be relieved to know they're dead, and - and -' Her voice cracked. He stuck out his chin, daring her to say it. And what? And maybe we should be too, Amy blurted.

Melody's not a serious gamer like me

You have duplicated four of the worst people in human history, and unleashed them on the world!

and a thick mustache calmly gestured for them to get in. Amy

Sometimes it's not such a terrible thing to have a ghost in your phone.

I took a bite of gummy worm, but the candy turned to acid in my mouth. (Take it from a guy who actually understood the chemical process behind that.)

The antidote for boring isn't to find something even boringer!

have done it. I'm not that stupid." The sad part is that Mr. Solway can't find his Medal of

We're on the roof of the Serenity Plastics Works—the highest point of our universe for our entire lives. Every time you look up, there it is. Eli puts it into words. "This must be how it felt to stand on the summit of Mount Everest for the first time.

Dan shrugged. "Maybe when you're rich, shopping takes longer, since you get to buy more stuff.

Zac Efron? Lady Gaga? Who are they and what do they have to do with a scientific theory about the origin of the universe? What is she talking about?

He'd spent most of his life thinking of his father as kind of a boob. But here on Mount Everest, Eisenhower Holt was the boob you wanted on your side.

Risks aren't risks when the consequences are no worse than your regular life.