132 Quotes by R.L. Stine

My friend Chuck was supposed to help me coach the team. But he told Miss Curdy he had an after-school job. Do you know what his after-school job is? Going home and watching TV. - Steve Boswell

That was my costume for the past five years.A hobo. Actually, it wasn’t much of a costume. I wore one of Dad’s baggy old suits with patches on the pants. Mom rubbed charcoal on my face to make me look dirty. And I carried a knapsack on a fishing pole over my shoulder.Bor-ring!

mammals," he mutters. "can't live with them, can't live without them.

But I could hear Mitzi nearby. She was still upstairs. If she saw me reading the comic book, she’d run downstairs and tell Dad for sure. Mitzi’s hobby is being a snitch.

I became more and more confused. My brain got so fuzzy, I even began to wonder if I'd ever actually been a boy at all. Maybe I'd really been a bee for my entire life, and I'd just dreamed about being a boy.

Here I was, locked inside this creepy old library with a monster, and I was worried about getting scolded for being late for dinner!

I mean, who could think about sneakers when an invisible building was waiting to be discovered?

Vanessa,” he murmured.I stared at him. I knew instantly what he meant.I had been thinking the same thing all along.Remembering the horrible moment we spilled Vanessa’s groceries.“Yes,” I agreed. “I didn’t want to admit it. I didn’t want to believe it. But Vanessa did this to us. Vanessa is BLUUUUCK BLUCCCK turning us into chickens.”“Chicken chicken,” he clucked.

So, when Cole was two and I was four, we moved to Goshen Falls. Lucky us! The whole town is three blocks long. We have a cute little farm with a cute little farmhouse. And even though Mom and Dad are computer programmers — not farmers — we have a backyard full of chickens.