155 Quotes by Gary Paulsen

How could he? The.

Kind of like a pear, he had thought, with a point on one end and a fat little body; a flying pear.

In measured time forty-seven days had passed since the crash. Forty-two days, he thought, since he had died and been born as the new Brian.

They say nature abhors a vacuum, but it doesn’t like two take-charge personalities in the same vicinity either.

We each live in our own time... And we must do the best we can with our time. Those who came before weren’t as lucky as us and we aren’t as lucky as some who may come later. We must still live in our own time and do the best we can.

So now I don’t feel normal unless I’ve got a book in my hands, and I feel the most normal when I’m lost in a story and can ignore the complicated situations around me that never seem to work out as neatly as they do in books.

All of flying is easy. Just takes learning. Like everything else. Like everything else.

But there’s something really nice about spending time with a little kid. You learn so much.

He was what he was, and if he was wrong or had mental problems, that was still the way he was, the way he had to live.