259 Quotes About Middle-grade

You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don't do...

If you always try to measure yourself withmoney... well, it's like counting backwards, the more youkeep on, the less you'll have to show for it.

It is good practice to never fault someone for their birth name, being that it is always of far greater importance how men speak of you, than the name by which you are addressed.

If you were making a map to something you didn’t want anyone else to find, would you actually put that something on the map?

Cameron doesn’t want to know all sorts of interesting things. He wants to do interesting things.

Etta gave Will a small, knowing smile. "Will, sometimes you have to love people for who they are, not who you want them to be.

You belong with us, the lost of the lost, the tribe without a home, a tribe of orphans living our abandoned lives amid toys and trinkets, stuffed monkeys and bears. You’re one of us now—the Tribe of the Teddy Bear.” From Tribe of the Teddy Bear

Lifegiver or Lifetaker? Are they not one and the same? Does death not give rise to life? Does the vulture not feed off the carcass, the mushroom off the rotting branch, the seed off the cooling lava? Do not judge, Ben Archer, for you know nothing of me.

Private like, this is cool stuff, and I should let my cousin in on it, kind of private?” Gunnar asked, “or, private like, I wet my pants, and I’m hiding the evidence, kind of private?