Kate Messner > Quotes

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand. —Einstein”
― Kate Messner, All the Answers

“[I]n spite of her work as a reference librarian, she discovered that life isn't about knowing all the answers. The best we can do is make peace with our questions, learn who we are, know our strengths, and do the best we can with the gifts we've been given while we're here.”
― Kate Messner, All the Answers

“I'm not sure, but I'm guessing that once you're the kind of person who thinks about all this stuff, you don't go back to being the kind of person who doesn't. And that's okay. It's harder, but I think I'd rather be the kind of person who does.”
― Kate Messner, Breakout

“Maybe Sophie was upset but not mad. Sometimes, Ava couldn't tell the difference. She just assumed that whenever anybody wasn't happy, it was her fault.”
― Kate Messner, All the Answers

“I love early snow now, though. Especially snow that happens when you least expect it and just sprinkles down for a while. It feels like a secret.”
― Kate Messner, The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z.

“some secrets stayed in the dark, where they belonged.”
― Kate Messner, Hide and Seek

“It's a gray morning. A roll-over-and-snuggle-deeper-in-the-covers morning.”
― Kate Messner, The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z.

“You have to let go before you can reach.”
― Kate Messner, All the Answers

“Sometimes people don't know why they're climbing. They only know it's better than hurting standing still.”
― Kate Messner, The Trouble with Heroes

“send me here, to the heart of the storm belt, for the summer.”
― Kate Messner, Eye of the Storm

“A gust of wind rattles the window, and I look out. Leaves are whooshing all over the place, flying past horizontally as if they have engines of their own.”
― Kate Messner, The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z.

“Some of the men traveling alone hadn’t bothered with wagons. Henry and Ezra Beard, brothers from St. Louis, only had mules.”
― Kate Messner, Rescue on the Oregon Trail

“they’d been handed an order of the day from General Eisenhower. “You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade,”
― Kate Messner, D-Day: Battle on the Beach

“historic eruptions,”
― Kate Messner, Journey through Ash and Smoke

“Smothered in numbers?” Sophie raised her eyebrows. “I didn’t know that could be fatal.” “It totally can,” Ava said. “Death by linear equations.”
― Kate Messner, All the Answers

“Simon”
― Kate Messner, Long Road to Freedom

“Eye of the Storm:”
― Kate Messner, Eye of the Storm

“Thankyou, Risha.”
― Kate Messner, Eye of the Storm

“But you're an artist. you should know there's more to a story than the part happening right now.”
― Kate Messner, The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z.

“Ranger”
― Kate Messner, Danger in Ancient Rome

“Sometimes they fizzle. Sometimes they crash and burn. Sometimes they explode.”
― Kate Messner, The Trouble with Heroes

“Gram prayed for almost everybody while she watched CNN, but she always said there was a special hot place in the afterlife for certain kinds of criminals. Ava decided that adventure course designers should be added to that list and have a special place there, too. Preferably one where they had to climb through flaming Hula-Hoops on a tightrope. Blindfolded.”
― Kate Messner, All the Answers

“In England, you had to be a man who owned property in order to vote.”
― Kate Messner, History Smashers: Women's Right to Vote

“life isn’t about knowing all the answers. The best we can do is to make peace with our questions, learn who we are, know our strengths, and do the best we can with the gifts we’ve been given while we’re here.”
― Kate Messner, All the Answers

“Be well,” she whispered. “Stay safe.” And it would. For the next five hundred years.”
― Kate Messner, Hide and Seek

“only thing we have to fear is fear itself,”
― Kate Messner, Hide and Seek

“Zerviah Gould Mitchell”
― Kate Messner, The Mayflower

“Crack!”
― Kate Messner, Night of Soldiers and Spies

“Once you got in the habit of being small, it was hard to feel safe being your normal size anymore”
― Kate Messner, Chirp

“brother. But Domitian loved the games.”
― Kate Messner, Danger in Ancient Rome