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“ When 1:45 came, half the class left, and Danny Hupfer whispered, If she gives you a cream puff after we leave, I'm going to kill you - which was not something that someone headed off to prepare for his bar mitzvah should be thinking.When 1:55 came and the other half of the class left, Meryl Lee whispered, If she gives you one after we leave, I'm going to do Number 408 to you. I didn't remember what Number 408 was, but it was probably pretty close to what Danny Hupfer had promised.Even Mai Thi looked at me with narrowed eyes and said, I know your home. Which sounded pretty ominous. ”

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Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.

~ Gary D. Schmidt

You can't just skip the boring parts.Of course I can skip the boring parts.How do you know they're boring if you don't read them?I can tell.Then you can't say you've read the whole play.I think I can live a happy life, Meryl Lee, even if I don't read the boring parts of The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.Who knows? she said. Maybe you can't.

~ Gary D. Schmidt

I almost cried. But I didn't, because if you're in seventh grade and you cry while wearing a blue floral cape and yellow tights with white feathers on the butt, you just have to curl up and die somewhere in a dark alley.

~ Gary D. Schmidt

You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them. I mean, so what if two roads go two ways in a wood? So what? Who cares if it made all that big a difference? What difference? And why should I have to guess what the difference is? Isn't that what he's supposed to say?Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?

~ Gary D. Schmidt