Schaffert's Quotes

#1. Simply adored Timothy Schaffert's The Coffins of Little Hope: the voice of Essie, the narrator, is terrific & the last line blew me away.

Nancy Pearl

#2. I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that ...

Louisa May Alcott

#3. In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is undermined, what the general masses feel tend to become the common rule.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#4. You were young, I thought, not once but always before, always always, every day before the day just passed. You were young only minutes ago.

Timothy Schaffert

#5. There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things.

Neal Shusterman

#6. Even when not in the act of writing Muscatine a letter, I was often composing one in my mind, situating the words just so, plunking one here, then one there, gauging how to sound worthy of his regard.

Timothy Schaffert

#7. Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.

Jonathan Sacks

#8. I'd like to make all different kinds of movies. I don't think it would make sense though for my second film to walk straight into a musical even though I'd like to.

David Michod

#9. After we ate our heaping slice of humble pie, we asked the missus if she could at least serve it up a la mode next time.

Timothy Schaffert

#10. My father taught me how to fight when I was 5.

Chuck Zito

#11. Jewels! Today each twig is important,
each ring, each infection, each form
is all that the gods must have meant.

Anne Sexton

#12. I was a mod when I was a kid. I'd be in Italian pencil-leg trousers with those bowling shoes you wear outside and a Fred Perry polo shirt with a V-neck sweater. It was like an Essex uniform - a very specific look.

Stephen Moyer

#13. Do not go through life; grow through life.

Eric Butterworth

#14. Tiff needed the words on the page to become the voice in her head, her own voice, or an approximation of it, and she needed the paper and the sound of the scratch of her chapped fingertips against it as she fiddled with each page.

Timothy Schaffert

#15. Horse racing is animated roulette.

Roger Kahn

#16. He took from his coat pocket a handful of wadded-up cash, as if children had paid him directly with their sweaty clutches of dollar bills.

Timothy Schaffert

#17. Your gift is what you were created to be

Sunday Adelaja

#18. Kindness to your family costs you almost nothing but affords a wealth of goodwill.

Timothy Schaffert

#19. The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.

Rick Hansen