Mid Grade Quotes

#1. Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance.

Judith Viorst

#2. We don't hinge on universes. We hinge on little things.

G. Willow Wilson

#3. I have certainly heard of the Subtle Art of Shutting Up, but I can't say I've practiced it all that much. I greatly prefer the underappreciated genius of Speaking My Mind. I figure if someone doesn't like what I have to say, they shouldn't put their ears in close proximity to my mouth.

Jenny Lundquist

#4. The bracelet and the first charm appeared the day I punched Austin Jackson in the nose. I didn't mean to slug him. His face just got in my way. It was a bruising end to a disastrous first month in middle school.

Jenny Lundquist

#5. As for learning to wear high heels, no need to worry. I've got no tolerance for those dreadful things. If God wanted us girls tottering around like a bunch of drunken sailors, we'd have been born wearing stilts!

Jenny Lundquist

#6. But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.

Eduard Shevardnadze

#7. P.S. Please don't call me Isabella. That name belongs to a really pretty girl who never wrecks her clothes and who never gets dirt under her fingernails. That's definitely not me. My name is Izzy.

Jenny Lundquist

#8. I'm in my mid-40s now, and I came out in 11th grade, so I must have been 17. So that's quite a long time ago, and the temperature and the culture was different.

Lisa Cholodenko

#9. You'd be surprised at how powerful hope can be.

Shannon Messenger

#10. Turns out, most girls would rather put on lip gloss than play with sand toads.

Jenny Lundquist

#11. Maybe we're about to radically change the operating system of the human condition. If so, then this would be a really good time to make backups of our civilization.

Bruce Sterling

#12. Don't follow a trend. Follow your heart.

Krist Novoselic

#13. I don't think actors need to go on pedestals. I don't buy it.

Richard C. Armitage

#14. Words are a weapon, and rotten kids like Tyler Jones get a free pass when it comes to using them because the marks they leave are invisible. Why don't more adults realize that?

Jenny Lundquist

#15. Sometimes I think teachers like Ms. Harmer view creativity as something dirty and slightly embarrassing, and would prefer to turn kids into people who color inside the lines.

Generally speaking, I don't care much for lines.

Jenny Lundquist