Code Orange Quotes

“He said our teachers want us to roll over and play dead, but he would go bear hunting with a stick before he let anybody get away with stuff against his city,”
― Caroline B. Cooney, Code Orange

“I'm trying to be intelligent here, even through it goes against a lifetime of training.”
― Caroline B. Cooney, Code Orange

“The city would go through hell, all because Mitty Blake had done his homework for a change.”
― Caroline B. Cooney, Code Orange

“Mitty did not know what rigor was. He considered checking his computer dictionary, but he was on a roll and couldn't be interrupted merely to find out what he was talking about.”
― Caroline B. Cooney, Code Orange

“Mitty imagined emergency technicians seeing a rash, whipping out their handbooks, checking smallpox in the index. And then the instructions: Give up, you're dead.”
― Caroline B. Cooney, Code Orange

“This is what happens when you do your homework, Mitty decided. It makes you sick.”
― Caroline B. Cooney, Code Orange