Top 31 Adam Gidwitz Quotes
#1. You see, Hansel and Gretel don't just show up at the end of this story.
They show up.
And then they get their heads cut off.
Just thought you'd like to know.
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#2. They were amazing, fierce, beautiful children.
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#3. Ale for a tale. That's the fairest trade I know.
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#4. Anger is a weed...It grows up through the soil, choking every other plant. You must stamp it out. Don't let it enter your garden. Stamp out your anger until it never comes back.
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#5. But beware, dear reader. For we go out into the wide, wild world, looking to change, looking to grow, looking for wisdom. But wisdom is hard to come by, and once achieved, it is very easily lost. Especially when one is leaving the wide, wild world - and returning to the place you once fled.
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#6. Inside her, great castles of comprehension, models of the world as she had understood it, shivered. She could not decide whether to let them crumble or to try desperately to save them.
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#7. Once upon a time, fairy tales were AWESOME!
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#8. It tastes like life."
"What?"
"Rotten and strange and rich and way, way too strong.
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#9. For, in life, it is in the darkest zones one finds the brightest beauty and the most luminous wisdom.
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#10. Well, don't eat my house!' the baker woman
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#11. And if this seems strange to you - that, under these difficult, frightening, and outlandish circumstances, children might be happy...well, then you don't know all that much about children.
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#12. By the way, the next time you see a little girl who's excited for Halloween,and she says,"I want to be Cinderella! I want to be Cinderella!" you'll know that what she's actually saying is,"I want to be Toilet Cleaner! I want to be Toilet Cleaner!" But don't tell her that, because she'll cry.
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#13. You see, my parents never cut off my head physically...But maybe emotionally...Most parents love their children and try to take care of them the best that they can. But parents mess up, all the time.
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#15. In Hebrew, satan means an advocate of the alternative, the one who makes the arguments you don't know how to refute." Michelangelo looked to the old Jew, still grinning wickedly in the corner. "That satan is my best friend.
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#16. There is a wisdom in children, a kind of knowing, a kind of believing, that we, as adults, do not have. There is a time when a kingdom needs its children.
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#17. Because, you see, every triumph begins with failure.
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#18. The oven became hotter and hotter, and Hansel began to sweat. Then a delicious smell wafted to his nostrils. Oh no! he thought. I'm cooking! He sniffed at the air. And I smell delicious!
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#19. She looked up, over the bandage that was nestled under her chin, and saw that the big-belly man with the red beard was starting at her, shaking his head. He looked like he was crying.
"I got ya this time," he whispered, as if to himself. "This time, I got ya.
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#20. There is something embarrassing about someone else's grief. It is hard to know what to do around it. The right answer, always, is hugs.
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#21. (T)hey at last understood that their problems would never have been solved by trying to cover them up or choke them back or pretend they didn't exist. By repression. No, their problems could only be solved by expression. By telling their tales, and by making up new ones, too.
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#23. A hug from a child! he exclaims. Perhaps God's greatest invention!
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#24. You are like pomegranates split open. Even the emptiest among you are as full of good as a pomegranate is full of seed.
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#25. A tale dark and Grimm is my favorite book of all time because it gives me the chills!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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#26. Whether you go your separate ways or stay together, you will continue to witness--against ignorance, against cruelty, and on behalf of all that is beautiful about this strange and crooked world.
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#27. Wait!" the prince exclaimed. "After you kill it, can I ride it?
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#28. There is this weird thing that happens, when you stop worrying so much about what other people think of you ... you suddenly start seeing what you think of you.
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#29. Sometimes, it turns out, the most important decisions in life are made by your dog.
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#30. You see, to find the brightest wisdom one must pass through the darkest zones. And through the darkest zones there can be no guide.
No guide, that is, but courage
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#31. I'd say all mirrors are magical, or can be.
They show you yourself after all.
Really seeing yourself, though, that's the hard part.
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