Quotes from D.J. MacHale

Good stuff doesn't just happen. You have to fight for it.

This is the way it was ment to be

I can't let that happen again. The stakes are way too high. I know that, now more than ever. If there's anything good that came from my failure on First Earth, it's that I have now totally given myself over to being a Traveler.

said to him. "We aren't playing here. Guns kill people." "Guns don't kill people," Tori said. "People kill people." "People with guns kill people," I said. "But you're right. We have to be able to protect ourselves.

You see, art makes people think. Blok didn't want people to think. If that happened, they might have realized what was actually happening.

We may not have made our grand statement, but we will still have our battle. We are armed with tak and we will triumph. Your efforts have been in vain. The battle is about to begin.

A] friend is someone who gives you trust because they want to, not because they have to.

The moment. I think back on it. A lot. It's like revisiting a favorite place. A place you wish you could go to again. But I can't because that place doesn't exist anymore, except in my memory.

When you think something's out of reach, you back off and say you didn't want it anyway.

The raid had been about me. The trustees of Blok wanted me back. Veego and LaBerge wanted me back. Saint Dane wanted me back. I was a popular guy.

There are no problems, only challenges. - Uncle Press

Hope is a fragile emotion, my friend. It isn't real. It exists only in the imagination. If you believe there is hope, there is hope. If you don't believe there is hope, there isn't.

Then what have you proved?" I asked. "Only that people will always try to make a better life for themselves.

If you didn't exist, I wouldn't exist. Everything I've done is because of you!

Gotta love Walmart. Where else can you buy Fritos and bullets?

T]he bottom line is that I made the right decision. So maybe it's okay to think like a weenie sometimes, so long as you don't act like one. There's grand philosophy in there someplace.

When I'm on tour, I get to meet hundreds of enthusiastic readers. There is truly nothing better for an author than having someone come up to them and say, "I loved your book." For that, I'll take off my shoes at airport x-rays and sit cramped in an airline seat for hours with nothing to eat but a tiny bag of peanuts. It's totally worth it. Writing

I'm not sure why that story came back to me while I sat huddled in Sydney's car on the way to the lake. It happened so long ago. I guess maybe it was because it gave me the assurance that when things got bad, there were certain people you could always count on.

Cooper's imagination was endless, I looked at the bales of felt and saw... bales of felt. Cooper was more like my mom. He didn't just see what was in front of him--he saw potential.

It took two hours to drive from Portland to Boston. It felt like two days. We

I guess she was being politically correct . . . or a weenie. Maybe that's the same thing.

But understanding that in my head, and accepting it in my heart are two different things.

President Richard E. Neff stood behind a podium that had the seal of the president of the United States displayed boldly in front. Why

That's the way it was meant to be