61 Quotes by Adam Gidwitz

Sometimes, it turns out, the most important decisions in life are made by your dog.

Indiscreet, dear girl, means we shouldn’t have been talking about what we were talking about where we were talking about it.

She looked up, over the bandage that was nestled under her chin, and saw that the big-belly man with the red beard was starting at her, shaking his head. He looked like he was crying. "I got ya this time," he whispered, as if to himself. "This time, I got ya.

There is something embarrassing about someone else's grief. It is hard to know what to do around it. The right answer, always, is hugs.

The versions of these stories that most people tell are indeed cute and sweet and incredibly, mind-numbingly, want-to-hit-yourself-in-the-head-with-a-sledgehammer-ingly-boring.

Whether you go your separate ways or stay together, you will continue to witness--against ignorance, against cruelty, and on behalf of all that is beautiful about this strange and crooked world.

Inside her, great castles of comprehension, models of the world as she had understood it, shivered. She could not decide whether to let them crumble or to try desperately to save them.

They were amazing, fierce, beautiful children.

But Joringel had no chance to answer. For Jorinda ran at her brother and threw her arms around him and held him so tight he could not breathe.Little Jorinda and little Joringel held each other for a long, long time. Neither said a word. At last Joringel withdrew and looked at his sister. "If you won't leave me," he whispered, "I won't leave you