61 Quotes by Adam Gidwitz

He’s a child. But he looks like the kind of child who has seen too much of life, who’s seen more than most adults. His eyes are both sharp and dead at the same time. As if he won’t miss anything, because he’s seen it all already.

Distinguishing the voice of God and the voices of those around us is no easy task. What makes you special, children, beyond your miracles, is that you hear God’s voice clearly, and when you hear it, you act upon it.

No, of course it can’t. The moon can eat children, and fingers can open doors, and people’s heads can be put back on. But rain? Talk? Don’t be ridiculous. Good thinking, Gretel dear. Good thinking.

The young man leaped from his chair and began to chant the words of a dark curse, but before he could finish someone came up behind him and knocked him unconscious with a tray of sausages.

In Hebrew, satan means an advocate of the alternative, the one who makes the arguments you don’t know how to refute.” Michelangelo looked to the old Jew, still grinning wickedly in the corner. “That satan is my best friend.

No matter how much wisdom is in a book, is it right to trade your life for it?

Anger is a weed... It grows up through the soil, choking every other plant. You must stamp it out. Don’t let it enter your garden. Stamp out your anger until it never comes back.

A hug from a child! he exclaims. Perhaps God’s greatest invention!

Well, don’t eat my house!’ the baker woman.