Quotes from Gordon Korman

flames dancing on their dueling swords. One of the squirt painters stepped out beside them. Oh

There are smart phones and dumb phones. His is a rock.

Jonah shook his head, clucking in false sympathy. "Told you guys — no way out." They

And there was her miracle.

them from both sides, it looked like escape. Dan

Vlad always told me that woulda-shoulda-coulda is a sucker's game.

Which was still pretty ill.

Amy took in the inspired look on her brother's face. "That's stealing!" Dan

You're like crabgrass! Every time I turn around, you're on another part of the lawn!

GORDON KORMAN wrote his first book at age fourteen

The last thing I need is a friendly how's-it-going chat with a professional killer. That's a definite dating no-no—

He's right, actually. I'm an awesome patient. As soon as I hear him on the stairs, I spit out the three capsules I stored in my cheek and bury them in the soil of the geranium. That's what the thing's dying of—a drug overdose.

It's cat food — it's for people like you!" Saladin

He felt old at eleven. Amy

You want me to stop and give the Wizards a chance to do it?" he shot back. Dead

Hard experience had taught her that the biggest danger often lay in those factors that could not be prepared for.

Never trust a Cahill." They

On with the chase.

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

No problem." She reaches into her pocket, pulls out a thick wad of cash, and stuffs it into the cup holder between us. I'm so amazed that I nearly steer off the road into a telephone pole. "Where'd all that money come from?" She shrugs. "People can't get enough of those Thin Mints.

I figure little Miss Torific has lost her mind—until I see the motorcycles. "Oh no you don't! Not those! No way!" "You had no problem stealing a quarter-million-dollar Bentley," Frieden challenges.

the most notorious crime organization in the country, and the only person under arrest is me.

That's the whole reason we're here, isn't it?" she persists. "Not to swim in their pool, and sleep in their beds, and eat their Tater Tots. Who invented those things, anyway? Pure starch and oil!" "Hey," I shoot back, "you can talk trash about me, but lay off my Tater Tots!

Mr. Kermit has a flip phone that's probably as old as his car. There are smart phones and dumb phones. His is a rock.