Todd Strasser > Quotes

“There's more to life then living, so hold on.”
― Todd Strasser

“The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.”
― Todd Strasser

“fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice, shame on me.”
― Todd Strasser, Count Your Blessings

“It's weird when you wake of from a bad dream and everything is still bad.”
― Todd Strasser, Blood on My Hands

“cant get there from here”
― Todd Strasser, Can't Get There from Here

“Davy once asked me if I thought it was better to be a has-been than a never was, but maybe it doesn't make much of a difference. In the end, people are just people, and the only things that matter are whether they are good or bad, loving or unloving, loved or unloved.”
― Todd Strasser, Famous

“If you've never known someone your own age who's died, you can't imagine what it feels like. It's as if you were walking on a glass floor and it suddenly shatters and now you're falling and falling and there's broken glass in the air all around you and no bottom in sight.”
― Todd Strasser, Wish You Were Dead

“Was it a weakness of man that made him want to ignore the darker side of his fellow human beings?”
― Todd Strasser, The Wave

“Of course it would be great to sell lots and lots of copies of The Beast of Cretacea. But the bottom line for me is to sell enough copies to convince my publisher to let me do a sequel. I spent three years creating the world of Cretacea and the personalities of all the characters who inhabit it. All I want to do now is go back.”
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“Some people get more of a chance to show who they are. Other people never get the chance.”
― Todd Strasser, Wish You Were Dead

“Strength through discipline! Strength through community! Strength through action!”
― Todd Strasser, The Wave

“Was it really true that the natural inclination of people was to look for a leader? Someone to make decisions for them? Indeed, the faces looking up at him said it was. That was the awesome responsibility any leader had, knowing that a group like this would follow. Ben began to realize how much more serious this 'little experiment' was than he'd ever imagined. It was frightening how easily they would put their faith in your hands, how easily they would let you decide for them. If people were destined to be led, Ben thought, this was something he must make sure they learned: to question thoroughly, never to put your faith in anyone's hands blindly.”
― Todd Strasser, The Wave

“Sometimes you know when someone is telling you the truth.”
― Todd Strasser, Wish You Were Dead

“But then again, impossible never became rumour, did it?”
― Todd Strasser, Wish You Were Dead

“Deadlines are like a drug for me. I hate and need them.”
― Todd Strasser

“This, then, is the story of what I learned. It is told in many voices, in words far more eloquent and raw than I could have thought on my own. It is a story of heartbreak and fear and regret. But mostly it is a warning. Violence comes in many forms- guns, fists, and words of hate and contempt. Unless we change the way we treat others in school and out, there will be more- and more horrible- tragedies.”
― Todd Strasser, Give a Boy a Gun

“Well, screw you. Screw all of you. I hope this letter is like a knife in your hearts. You ruined my life. All I've done is pay you back in kind.”
― Todd Strasser, Give a Boy a Gun

“What does it take to be a writer? 1) Foolhardily believing that someone might actually be interested in reading what you've written. 2) Spending an enormous amount of time writing it as well as you can. 3) Accepting that, at best, you'll probably be paid something around 25 cents an hour for your efforts.”
― Todd Strasser

“More and more he'd begun to recognize the position of importance his students were unconsciously forcing upon him - the ultimate leader of The Wave.”
― Todd Strasser, The Wave

“Why do we believe one stranger and not another?”
― Todd Strasser, Wish You Were Dead

“What I mean is," Robert said nervously, "the whole idea of The Wave is that the people in it have to support it. If we're really a community, we all have to agree.”
― Todd Strasser, The Wave

“Amy Smith leva aussitôt la main.
"Oui, Amy ?
-Tous les Allemands étaient-ils des nazis ?
-Non, en fait, moins de dix pour cent de la population allemande appartenait au parti nazi.
-Alors, pourquoi personne n'a essayé de les arrêter ?
-Je ne peux pas répondre avec certitude à cette question, Amy...
(p 22)”
― Todd Strasser, La Vague

“Maybe they don't forget you, they just forget to remember you. I don't think people mean to forget.”
― Todd Strasser, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

“18”
― Todd Strasser, Help! I'm Trapped in My Sister's Body

“2”
― Todd Strasser, Help! I'm Trapped in My Sister's Body

“I’d learned a little about nuclear war from duck-and-cover air-raid drills at school, but most of what I knew about the Russians came from the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show on TV.”
― Todd Strasser, Fallout

“I'm sitting on the back deck, gazing up at the moonless night sky. The Milky Way is a hazy diagonal across the star-glittery blackness. In the immensely vast universe, we are a tiniest speck. In the billions of years of history, we are the merest infinitesimal instant. Yet we persist in believing that what we do can be important.”
― Todd Strasser, Price of Duty

“He did," I said. "But I told him he'd just have to shoot me.”
― Todd Strasser, If I Grow Up

“But there will be no story about this moment, no photographs.
No one except the two of them will ever know.
It is the best thing she can do.”
― Todd Strasser, Famous

“chair”
― Todd Strasser, Help! I'm Trapped in the President's Body