Top 72 Gordon Korman Quotes
#2. I love Chris Crutcher, Sara Zarr, Lois Lowry, Elizabeth Scott, Madeleine L'Engle, Gordon Korman, Michelle Magorian, Heather Bouwman.
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#4. Hamilton was bug-eyed. "Who are those people?"
Jonah held his head. "Man, I should have known it was a mistake to say I'd be leaving town soon! Why do fans have to be so literal?"
"Are they going to let us go get the faxes?" Hamilton asked.
Jonah stared at him. "You're kidding, right?
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#5. It's cat food - it's for people like you!" Saladin
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#6. During construction, when a worker died, his body was built right into the Wall itself. No one knew how many corpses lay within the stone and mortar, but some estimates ran as high as three million souls.
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#7. I'm supposed to talk some sense into you," she told me. "But what I really want to say is congratulations. You did the right thing." "The police don't think so." "Typical," she clucked. "Getting hung up on the numbers on your birth certificate when you probably saved a life." "They made
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#10. Wolfram," Dan mused, a far-off look in his eye. "I've heard of that from somewhere." Amy was skeptical. "Are you sure you're not thinking of Wolfgang?
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#11. What does it feel like to get shot?"
"I don't recommend it," said Nellie in a controlled voice. "Chocolate is definitely better.
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#12. Ask yourself: 'Do I feel the need to laminate?' Then teaching is for you.
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#13. That Mesozoic mama's boy wouldn't have lasted five seconds in the Cretaceous period.
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#14. Your pants didn't get smaller, Mommy," I assured her. "Your butt got bigger.
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#15. The Bombyx mori caterpillar," her brother supplied, thinking of snack time at the Shaolin Temple. "It tastes like chicken.
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#16. The dog always dies. Go to the library and pick out a book with an award sticker and a dog on the cover. Trust me, that dog is going down.
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#17. fact, it's just crazy enough to be the kind of thing that actually happens in your family. A regular hiding place isn't good enough for you Froot Loops; you have to use Mount Everest!
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#18. There's always a way," his sister lectured. "We'll need help, though."
"What help?"
Amy grinned. "Sometimes it doesn't hurt to be a part of the most powerful family in human history.
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#19. Don't think of it as losing a boyfriend. Think of it as gaining a stalker.
-Dan Cahill
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#21. Global warming doesn't care what's in your bank account.
-Sinead Starling
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#22. Nellie's brow furrowed. "The great Mr. Hip-Hop Mogul standing in line with the common peasants? How do you figure that?"
Dan grinned. "I'm starting to dig this 'no cars' thing. It's a great equalizer.
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#23. The phone rang in the comm. center. Ian consulted the monitor. "It's Dan." He pressed a button. "Kabra here."
Dan's voice crackled through the attic. "Don't say it like that," he complained. "Your name still gives me heartburn.
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#24. I hate France. It's like the whole country's on a diet
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#25. What did Romeo and Juliet do?"
They died," I remind her gently. "Some mix-up with the poison-
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#26. If it isn't on YouTube, it might as well have never happened.
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#27. That's the most sexist idea I've ever heard," Nellie said harshly. "I'm female, so I have to be clueless. He's male, so he's got a great sense of direction.
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#28. Welcome to the world of Cahills. If it isn't impossible, it isn't worth doing.
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#29. Amy hugged Sinead, and Dan scratched Saladin. Later, Saladin. Take it easy on Kabra. On second thought, don't.
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#30. According to the mate, there were three main jobs that needed to be done to ensure their survival.
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#31. I've taken care of it," I said My father looked at me, shocked. Then I realized "taken care of" had a very specific meaning in his line of work. "No, no, I mean he's gone.
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#32. It's a shame that money has to enter into everything.
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#34. I have a percription ferret. I'm not a good judge of weird.
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#35. The test! It was as if they believed the test was an infallible superbeing that had descended to earth on a great space ark surrounded by thunderbolts of perfection.
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#36. But here, two thousand miles from home, there was a real shipwreck, a real hope. A choice big enough to change our lives forever.
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#37. The thing about a cavity search is this: it has nothing to do with the dentist.
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#38. You want me to stop and give the Wizards a chance to do it?" he shot back. Dead
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#39. How you are in this place that has been sealed since the time of Caesar Augustus?" one of the archaeologists demanded in amazement.
"I was looking for my sister," Dan quipped.
"Your sister?"
"Oh - here she is." Dan reached through the opening and hauled out an equally grubby Amy.
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#40. We don't have to love it. We just have to steal it.
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#41. After so many reversals of fortune today, they half expected a meteorite to hurtle from the sky and vaporize them if they dared to move. Finally,
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#42. Who's Evan?" Ian asked.
"Amy's boyfriend!"
"Amy, since when do you have a boyfriend?" Ian probed.
"Since none of your business!
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#43. Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."
"Funny name for an aircraft," Grace commented. "Is it after your wife?"
"My gun."
Grace stared at him. "You named your plane after a gun?"
"It was a very good gun.
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#44. Wonderful. What's the point of throwing a hissy fit without friends and family on hand to hear it?
-Amy Cahill
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#45. When we lock things away," he said with conviction, "we're really imprisoning ourselves.
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#46. It's like living your whole life without ever looking in a mirror, Amy thought, and suddenly you see your reflection, and you're a monster.
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#47. They've got these things called lockers," I raved on. "The Halls are lined with them. And you won't believe what they're for! They're for locking stuff away-so other people won't steal it! Why can't everyone share?" ~ Cap
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#49. Hypothesis: Brothers and sisters forge family bonds through a complex byplay of accusations and insults.
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#50. We're all proud of you, Donnie. Your mother and me, Katie - " "Right," I snorted. "She said I'm dumber than her bladder-challenged dog.
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#52. No fair! Those guys ripped off what we rightfully stole!
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#54. For someone who'e smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.
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#55. Dan inched closer. "Are her eyelids moving?"
Jonah was on his feet now, cheerleading. "Get up, babysitter! Up! Up!
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#56. Challenge isn't going to come from any curriculum, no matter how hard they make it. It's going to come from life.
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#58. Ian Kabra rolled up his window. "My god, what's that smell?"
Behind the wheel, Sinead laughed. "It's called fresh air. Growing up in London, you've probably never breathed it before."
"And I hope I never breathe it again.
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#59. We didn't stow away!" Dan protested. "You sunk our boat and pulled us out of the canal!"
"Good point," Ian agreed. "Return them to the canal. Roughly, please.
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#61. Hypothesis: Intentional or not, movement to a beat = dancing.
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#62. In our family, you don't get a childhood. We're too busy trying to dominate the world.
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#63. Nellie grinned. "I always wanted to go to Venice. It's supposed to be the romance capital of the world."
"Sweet," put in Dan. "Too bad your date is an Egyptian Mau on a hunger strike."
The au pair sighed. "Better than an eleven-year-old with a big mouth.
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#65. Jonah peered critically up at the Renaissance masterpiece. "Man, those copies don't due it justice. This one's the truth!"
"Only a Janus," groaned Hamilton.
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#66. You don't get Billie Joe Armstrong's autograph on your forehead without following your instincts.
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#67. Sinead broke in. "The cops need to know what to do with Evan, Amy. What should I tell them?"
"Shoot to kill?" Ian suggested.
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#69. the yard. When Ben knocked on Griffin's door the next morning on his way to school, he was surprised when the door was answered by Mrs.
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#70. Slime him, sis," Dan urged, "Make him a redcoat.
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#71. Oh, no-" They weren't even on the runway, and Jonah's father was already immersed in his BlackBerry. "Remember those 'Live Large with the Wiz Generation' posters? Well, guess how that translates into Chinese- 'Jonah Wizard Makes Your Ancestors Fat'.
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#72. They crested a rise, and there it was, in the hollow between rolling hills - a low, square building, ghostly gray in the moonlight.
"Is that it?" asked Hamilton.
"It probably isn't the local opera house," groaned Ian.
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