Middle Grade Quotes

“Isn’t that what it means to be a scientist? To push the boundaries of the unknown? To bravely, actively explore the enormity of our universe ?”
― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

“Be patient with him. If the same quality did not exist in you, you wouldn’t notice it in him.”
― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

“Life is funny that way. Sometimes the dumbest thing you do turns out to be the smartest.”
― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

“Magic is always impossible.... It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That is why it's magic.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Magician's Elephant

“It’s pretty confusing.”
“Good. Be confused. Confusion is where inspiration comes from.”
― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

“Right? I don’t know why I did it. Temporary insanity, maybe. Did you ever do something that makes absolutely no sense, but you couldn’t help yourself?”
― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

“Small Acts of Kindness are Priceless”
― MG Wells

“Wish me good luck, please,” I whisper.
“On one condition,” Philemone says. “Remember, what you call luck is the meeting of opportunity and flexibility.”
I smile, weakly.
“Good luck,” she says. “Now go.”
― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

“No need to be afraid. I’m just a Holon.”
“Huh?”
“A Holon. What are you?”
“You mean who am I?” I correct him.
“No, what are you?”
“I’m not a what. I’m a who.”
“How can you be a who if you’re not a what?”
“What?”
― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

“Sometimes what we don't want is actually what we need.”
― Nikolas Lee, The Iron-Jawed Boy

“I love to walk through snow, to climb mountains, to smell the fresh air and I love to dream about flying. Soaring through the air, watching the earth from above, feeling the wind in my face and touching the clouds would be an amazing experience.”
― Oliver Neubert, The Flyers

“She was working to remind herself of who she was. She was working to remember that somewhere in another place entirely she was known and loved.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Magician's Elephant

“Attending to your own words and ideas as well as those of others is an admirable trait in any person, but a necessity in a leader.”
― Jennifer Frick-Ruppert, Spirit Quest

“It is hard to imagine the things you have never seen.”
― Steven J. Carroll, All the Worlds of Men

“Doing something was better than doing nothing.
Without warning Lucas hit the emergency stop but-ton, and the elevator braked with an uncomfortable jolt. Then he mashed the OPEN DOOR button and punched the door itself. The front doors opened in between the second and first floors.
Lucas’s heart pumped in his chest. “I hear that baby in the parking lot crying.”
― Paul Aertker, Brainwashed

“Only worse thing than being cold, and too tired to defend yourself, is to be cold and alone. And I wouldn't ever wish that on nobody.”
― Steven J. Carroll, The Road to Jericho

“I appreciate thieves who do their research, but at least you recognize worth when you see it.”
― M.L. LeGette, The Orphan and the Thief

“You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don't do...”
― Steven J. Carroll, The Road to Jericho

“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.”
― Steven J. Carroll, A Prince of Earth

“Nearly all men have weak hearts, in one way or another.”
― Steven J. Carroll, In the Window Room

“To travel beyond our world is to change this present one forever.”
― Steven J. Carroll, A Prince of Earth

“None of it mattered, because there was music.”
― Erin Entrada Kelly, Blackbird Fly

“There was pie on the table when Tugs returned. Pie in the Button family meant trouble.”
― Anne Ylvisaker, The Luck of the Buttons

“If you always try to measure yourself with
money... well, it's like counting backwards, the more you
keep on, the less you'll have to show for it.”
― Steven J. Carroll, The Road to Jericho

“I'd always known that when you went through one of these doors, you went to another planet, and that that other planet might be so far away, you couldn't fly there in spaceship in a million years. Somehow, the whole thing had never seemed strange before today.”
― Mary G. Thompson, Escape from the Pipe Men!

“Grandpa stopped speaking the day he killed my brother, John.”
― Crystal Chan, Bird

“No need to send a king when a princess will do.”
― Nic Stone , Shuri

“Tugs used to think that everyone's name was in the dictionary, and when she had realized it was only hers, both Tugs and Button, she felt suddenly fond and possessive of it, as if this book were put here for her guidance alone.”
― Anne Ylvisaker, The Luck of the Buttons

“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?”
― Deborah Grant-Dudley, The Lost Cargo

“Cameron doesn’t want to know all sorts of interesting things. He wants to do interesting things.”
― Deborah Grant-Dudley, The Lost Cargo