Someday Angeline Quotes

“He didn’t want her to know that he didn’t understand, but what he didn’t realize was that she didn’t understand either, so that if he had just told her he didn’t understand, she would have understood, but when he told her he understood, then she didn’t understand.”
― Louis Sachar, Someday Angeline

“Instead, they called her a name. They called her “a genius.” And even though it really didn’t explain anything, everybody considered it a satisfactory explanation.
And that way, nobody ever had to really try to understand.”
― Louis Sachar, Someday Angeline

“She was on the outside here too, just like at school. Even in the circular room, with all the fish swimming around her, she was on the outside. She was in the middle, but on the outside.”
― Louis Sachar, Someday Angeline

“Miss Turbone looked at Gary. She could tell by the way that he was looking down at his desk that he didn’t know the answer. Some teachers, like Mrs. Hardlick, would have called on him for just that reason. Some hunters like to shoot ostriches that have their heads buried in the sand. Miss Turbone called on somebody else.”
― Louis Sachar, Someday Angeline

“They called her “a genius.” And even though it really didn’t explain anything, everybody considered it a satisfactory explanation.”
― Louis Sachar, Someday Angeline

“She sat down at the end of the pier and dangled her legs over the edge. It was about a fifteen- or twenty-foot drop to the ocean. And everywhere she looked, it went on forever. There were millions of different kinds of fish, thousands of which nobody had even heard of. There were “Gardens of Eels” that covered acres of the ocean floor. There were caves and mountains and valleys, most of which were still a secret. It was a great, unexplored mystery. Octopuses, sharks, bat rays, sea horses, bumphead hogfish, long-snouted hawkfish, fat innkeepers—the ocean covered more than two-thirds of the Earth’s surface. Great pods of whales could swim around unnoticed, dolphins, angelfish, rainbow fish, clown fish, boots and sneakers. Her hands gripped the pier as she ducked her head under the wooden railing. Moonfish, goose-fish, flashlight fish, barracudas, she took several long deep breaths. Stonefish, lobsters, paddlefish, glass catfish, her muscles tightened. Tigerfish, scissors-tail fish, the water rocked beneath her.”
― Louis Sachar, Someday Angeline

“No, you still can’t go out with your kid’s teacher. It’s probably against the law. Besides, she probably already has lots of dates for tonight or is busy grading papers.”
― Louis Sachar, Someday Angeline

“The scissors-tail fish cleanly cut their way through the water. The sea horses galloped around the bend. The turkey fish gobbled up their fish food. And beneath the silvery moonfish, the convict fish silently escaped to the other end of the tank.”
― Louis Sachar, Someday Angeline

“There are some people who are so cold and unfeeling, like reflections in a mirror, that they might as well be imaginary.”
― Louis Sachar, Someday Angeline

“The world spun around and he spun around too.”
― Louis Sachar, Someday Angeline

“Some hunters like to shoot ostriches that have their heads buried in the sand.”
― Louis Sachar, Someday Angeline

“liked his jokes and even laughed and everything, he didn’t think about the pebble.”
― Louis Sachar, Someday Angeline