Middle Grade Quotes

You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don't do...

~ Steven J. Carroll

I’m alive,” he groaned. “But I’m not doing a very good job of it.

~ Merrie Haskell

And turnips - endless ruptured turnips.

~ Merrie Haskell

Perrotte frowned. “I’d like to turn a plowshare into a sword ,” she said. “I’d cut our way out of those thorns, and then use it to run my enemies through—” She bit off her next words and swallowed them. Sand stared at her, aghast. She met his eyes, defiant. “What? You don’t like bloodthirstiness?” she asked. “Pardon? No. I’m horrified that you would dull a sword on that thorn brake. I could make you some pretty good hedge shears.

~ Merrie Haskell

The truth is . . . Well, the truth is the truth, and thus worth telling, but sometimes truths are so complicated that it’s exhausting to get them out in the right order.” He glanced up at her. That sounded like an evasion if ever she’d heard one. She raised an eyebrow.

~ Merrie Haskell

Saint Melor’s father was Saint Meliau.”“Was everyone in Bertaèyn a saint, back in the day?”“Everyone who didn’t murder anyone, maybe,” Perrotte said.

~ Merrie Haskell

The shrine I prayed at not to go to university,” Sand said.“I guess your prayer was answered,” Perrotte said.Sand strongly considered throwing something at her—but there was nothing to hand that wasn’t sacred.

~ Merrie Haskell

How did you get into the castle, Alexandre, son of Gilles Smith?” Sand shrugged. “A saint kidnapped me from his shrine and put me into a fireplace here. So I guess the answer is, a miracle of Saint Melor. Or so I think. He has not told me.” “If you are trying to antagonize him, you are doing a good job,” Perrotte whispered. Sand scuffed his shoe at her. “I’m just telling the truth!” “You’re very good at telling it in the most maddening way possible.”“Thank you?

~ Merrie Haskell

You’re not mending anything, remember, Sand? The hedge.” He paused and shook his head at himself. “And Perrotte’s away for a few minutes, and you’re talking to yourself again.

~ Merrie Haskell

It was going to be our job to annoy someone?” “I know—it’s a dream come true!

~ Joel N. Ross

After an hour the score was: Quancita—34 Radiz—51 Sally—froglegs Perla—9 a

~ Joel N. Ross

Are you okay?” “Yeah.” “Good,” she said, “because if you fall off a skyscraper, I’ll be so mad at you.

~ Joel N. Ross

Are you . . . lost?” “Not really,” she told him. “We just don’t know where we’re going.

~ Joel N. Ross

What are you doing?” I asked Loretta. “Stabbing a cushion,” she told me.

~ Joel N. Ross

Keep moving!” “Bea’s arguing with the floor.

~ Joel N. Ross

Torque was the greatest thing in the world, as far as Lina was concerned.

~ Jaleigh Johnson

As a rule, she didn’t like boys very much, but she had to admit, Charlie was actually pretty nice.

~ Sarah Weeks

That was the moment when Alice knew for sure that she and Charlie Erdling would be friends for the rest of their lives.

~ Sarah Weeks

It is hard to imagine the things you have never seen.

~ Steven J. Carroll

So you’re a reader,” My mom sighs, as if somehow this elevates Isabel to yet another realm of perfection.

~ Denis Markell

Readers will be swept up by the drama and fast pace of this powerful debut novel.

~ Reading Today Online

None of it mattered, because there was music.

~ Erin Entrada Kelly

Sometimes what we don't want is actually what we need.

~ Nikolas Lee

I love to walk through snow, to climb mountains, to smell the fresh air and I love to dream about flying. Soaring through the air, watching the earth from above, feeling the wind in my face and touching the clouds would be an amazing experience.

~ Oliver Neubert

When you say fair, Samantha,” said Mr Green through a peculiar smile, “do you mean one of those travelling fleets of vehicles that arrive and set up things like spinning Waltzers and Big Wheels and all manner of machines that whizz people around in circles and up and down and from side to side? Machines that could...” Mr Green turned away and his unnatural smile became even more unsettling... “easily go wrong!

~ Mark Gorton

Junk?” Lina repeated, incredulous. Oh, she wasn’t about to let that pass.

~ Jaleigh Johnson

Normally, she would never wish a head injury on anyone, but it might make her days in Archival Studies a bit easier.

~ Jaleigh Johnson

If a wish turns to hope, it’s worth chasing. (Lucas Warbuck: Darkotika - Book 2)

~ Ariel Roma

I'm serious, Jim. You need to put this crap away. You walk into school on Monday talking to me, or anyone else, about the city's pesky troll problem, and you're not exactly going to get a lot of people saying, 'Gee, thanks for the warning.' It'll spread faster than mono. You think things are tough for us now? Jim, this will be the end. I'm sorry if you had a crazy nightmare. I really am. But I can't let you ruin our lives.

~ Guillermo Del Toro

Something warned me that what I might see would haunt me forever.

~ Guillermo Del Toro

A word is a small song.

~ Larry Good

Leaves lift trees.

~ Larry Good

You know, Dorothy, you can’t let people bring you down so easily or you’ll have your nose in the dirt for the rest of your life. From what I make of it, for every person with a good thought, there are about fifty who’d try to spoil it. We have to guard our good ideas, our happy thoughts, and fight for them. Because if we let those others snuff them out, well, we didn’t after all deserve them.

~ J.m. Lavallee

And it is a strange thing about love... it is that it can take a strength that would seem otherwise insignificant and transform it into a hardly quenchable power.

~ Steven J. Carroll

Nearly all men have weak hearts, in one way or another.

~ Steven J. Carroll

I was thinking that preparing to meet someone you don’t think you’ll like is a lot like pulling a tooth you do like, in that you’ll be very sweaty and know very well (at least at that moment in time) that life would be far grander if you went in another direction.

~ Shoeburn Ruffet

My attention was like cooking butter, not spreadable at the best of times. And when it was spreadable, it could destroy your toast by setting it ablaze. I was unpredictable, even to myself.

~ Shoeburn Ruffet

My father was a patient father. He was so patient that when he once saw a sign that read ‘Patient Entrance’ at the Welt Foot Hospital, he drove his automobile incredibly slow.

~ Shoeburn Ruffet

A great deal of a child’s life is being asked and being told things by adults and not knowing the answers or what to do. So, I didn’t say anything.

~ Shoeburn Ruffet

The address given to me by Greta was written in such a way that the words looked like numbers, and the numbers looked like the aftermath of a startled octopus meeting a deep-sea diver in a corner café. It was the worst writing I had ever seen.

~ Shoeburn Ruffet