Bryan Chick > Quotes

“As the sasquatch swung its claws down, Noah threw”
― Bryan Chick, Secrets and Shadows

“Drop me and become my snack!”
― Bryan Chick, The Secret Zoo

“open;”
― Bryan Chick, The Secret Zoo

“Heck”
― Bryan Chick, The Secret Zoo

“and otters and penguins swimming up and down streams.”
― Bryan Chick, The Secret Zoo

“more luck putting out a forest fire with a wet wipe.”
― Bryan Chick, Riddles and Danger

“platform.”
― Bryan Chick, The Secret Zoo

“dribbled”
― Bryan Chick, The Secret Zoo

“Megan raced across her backyard to the tree fort. The wind snapped her pajamas, and the stiff grass pricked her bare feet.”
― Bryan Chick, The Secret Zoo

“struggled”
― Bryan Chick, The Secret Zoo

“Nowicki, who months earlier had spotted monkeys”
― Bryan Chick, The Secret Zoo

“giant elevator”
― Bryan Chick, The Secret Zoo

“whispered”
― Bryan Chick, The Secret Zoo

“flapping flippers.”
― Bryan Chick, Secrets and Shadows

“bolted”
― Bryan Chick, The Secret Zoo

“him,”
― Bryan Chick, Secrets and Shadows

“in turn,”
― Bryan Chick, The Secret Zoo

“I want you guys to listen up, because I hate repeating myself.”
― Bryan Chick, Secrets and Shadows

“that passage. Having nowhere to go, she backed toward the front of the class. The sasquatch crept toward her. It growled and snorted and dripped saliva off its bottom lip. When it bumped into one of the desks it had knocked over, it reached down, seized one of its metal legs, and casually hurled it aside. The spinning desk crashed into the ceiling and came down hard on the floor, breaking”
― Bryan Chick, Traps and Specters

“Ladies first,” he said. She shook the tension out of her shoulders, gingerly stepped forward, and grumbled, “Always the gentleman,” as she pulled back the curtain.”
― Bryan Chick, The Secret Zoo

“described”
― Bryan Chick, The Secret Zoo

“monkey”
― Bryan Chick, The Secret Zoo

“charging toward them. They covered a long stretch of the sidewalk and spilled onto the grass. Standing just higher than someone’s”
― Bryan Chick, The Secret Zoo

“an Instant Marlo.”
― Bryan Chick, Secrets and Shadows

“Well, Mr. Britannica, do you mind telling me how an extinct bird that can’t fly is flying around being…not extinct?”
― Bryan Chick, The Secret Zoo

“a gleam of hope flashed across his face. “Like . . . a chipmunk?” Ella glanced at him. “Someone’s watching us.” Richie’s face sank with such force that Ella half expected his eyes, ears, and nose to tumble to the ground and lie there like Mr. Potato Head pieces. He kept his voice to a whisper. “What? Seriously, where?” Ella directed a finger across the street to a yard whose densely planted spruce trees grew higher than the surrounding telephone poles. A dark blur moved from the shadow of one spruce into the shadow of another. Keeping perfectly still, Ella said, “Did you see that?” “Yes. What was it?” After a moment of silence, Ella delivered the simple truth. “It was him.” Every cell in Richie’s body froze. Finally, he said, “If by him, you mean Mr. Peters, checking his mail,”
― Bryan Chick, Secrets and Shadows

“You won’t destroy me,” Mr. Darby muttered to the empty space between him and the sector where DeGraff was hidden. “Not a second time.”
― Bryan Chick, Traps and Specters

“backyard to the tree fort. The wind snapped her pajamas, and the stiff grass pricked her bare feet. At the tree trunk, she grabbed the ladder and peered up. She could faintly see the wooden planks of the fort and, beyond them, the moon and stars. Somewhere up there, she’d left her glasses—at least, she hoped she had.”
― Bryan Chick, The Secret Zoo

“single unit,”
― Bryan Chick, Secrets and Shadows

“I smell armpit,” Ella said. “’Fess up—who stinks?” A few of the Specters chuckled. “Richie?” Ella asked. Richie said, “You know . . . it’s nice not to look at her, but can’t we do something about her voice?”
― Bryan Chick, Raids and Rescues