Small Steps Quotes

“But I'm taking small steps
'Cause I don't know where I'm going
I'm taking small steps
And I don't know what to say.
Small steps,
Trying to pull myself together
And maybe I'll discover
A clue along the way!”
― Louis Sachar, Small Steps

“There was something special about being in a strange place, all alone in a mass of people even if you had just screwed up your life, or perhaps especially if you had just screwed up your life.”
― Louis Sachar, Small Steps

“I may have ruined my life, but at least I got to eat some really good Chinese food.”
― Louis Sachar, Small Steps

“Small steps, Hand in hand we’ll walk together, And maybe we’ll discover A clue along the way. . . .”
― Louis Sachar, Small Steps

“It's a lost and lonely kind of feeling,
To wake up wearing a disguise.
I lie in bed staring at the ceiling,
I don't know who I am
There's little that I can
Fully recognize....

But I'm taking small steps,
'Cause I don't know where I'm going.
I'm taking small steps
And I don't know what to say.
Small steps,
Trying to pull myself together,
And maybe I'll discover
A clue along the way....

Just to make it through the day and not to get hurt,
Seems about the best that I can hope.
Like coffee stains splattered on your sweatshirt
There isn't any pattern.
Everything's uncertain.
It's difficult to cope....

But I'm taking small steps,
'Cause I don't know where I'm going.
I'm taking small steps,
And I've forgotten how to play.
Small steps,
Trying to pull myself together,
And maybe I'll discover,
A clue along the way....

And if someday my small steps bring me near you,
Please don't rush to tell me all you feel.
You don't have to speak for me to hear you.
If I softly sigh,
Look me in the eye
And let me know I'm real....

Then we'll take small steps,
'Cause we won't know where we're going.
We'll take small steps,
And we'll have too much to say.
Small steps,
Hand in hand we'll walk together,
And maybe we'll discover
A clue along the way....

Small steps,
'Cause I don't know where I'm goin'.
Small steps,
I just take it day to day.
Small steps,
Somehow get myself together,
Then maybe I'll discover
Who I am on the way....”
― Louis Sachar, Small Steps

“He’s not my dad,” Kaira said. “Just because he married my— As soon as I turn eighteen I’m firing his ass! Then I’ll call you.”
― Louis Sachar, Small Steps

“X-Ray had been sent to Camp Green Lake for selling bags of dried parsley and oregano to customers who thought they were buying marijuana. That was also why his family had to move from Lubbock to Austin shortly after he was released.”
― Louis Sachar, Small Steps

“She said his life would be like walking upstream in a rushing river. The secret was to take small steps and just keep moving forward. If he tried to take too big a step, the current would knock him off his feet and carry him back downstream.”
― Louis Sachar, Small Steps

“One was a fast-talking, skinny white guy. With him was a big dude wearing a cowboy hat and boots.”
― Louis Sachar, Small Steps

“offering you a hundred and eighty dollars, pure profit, and no worries.”
― Louis Sachar, Small Steps

“You”
― Louis Sachar, Small Steps

“I’m Felix,” said the skinny guy. “This is my man Moses.”
― Louis Sachar, Small Steps

“Life is like crossing a river. If you”
― Louis Sachar, Small Steps

“try to take too big a step, the current will knock you off your feet and carry you away.”
― Louis Sachar, Small Steps

“Graduate from high school. 2. Attend two years of Austin Community College. 3. Do well enough to transfer to the University of Texas. (Jack Dunlevy wanted him to major in landscape architecture, but Armpit wasn’t sure he wanted to dig holes the rest of his life. He was considering studying occupational therapy, so he could help people like Ginny.) 4. Don’t do anything stupid. And 5. Lose the name Armpit.”
― Louis Sachar, Small Steps

“2. Attend two years of Austin Community College. 3. Do well enough to transfer to the University of Texas. (Jack Dunlevy wanted him to major in landscape architecture, but Armpit wasn’t sure he wanted to dig holes the rest of his life. He was considering studying occupational therapy, so he could help people like Ginny.) 4. Don’t do anything stupid. And 5. Lose the name Armpit. Small steps,”
― Louis Sachar, Small Steps

“Life is like crossing a river. If you try to take too big a step, the current will knock you off your feet and carry you away.”
― Louis Sachar, Small Steps

“church choir”
― Louis Sachar, Small Steps

“He had been sent to Camp Green Lake because of a bucket of popcorn. He had been trying to ease his way along a row of seats at the movies. He was only fourteen at the time, and was making his way past a couple of high school seniors when one of them stuck out his foot. They yelled at him for spilling popcorn on them, and he demanded that they pay for the popcorn, and by the time it was all over, the two older boys were in the hospital, and he was on his way to Camp Green Lake Juvenile Correctional Facility.”
― Louis Sachar, Small Steps

“At work the day before he’d installed a sprinkler system in the front yard of a house.”
― Louis Sachar, Small Steps

“Music needs blank spaces sometimes,” Cotton said. “They take up all the blank spaces.” “Now you’re talkin’ about music,” said Billy Goat. “Nobody makes real music anymore. It’s all just a big show.” “Just background for MTV,” said Duncan. “It’s almost impossible for a real musician to do anything worth listening to anymore. Now it’s all I-don’t-know-what.”
― Louis Sachar, Small Steps

“They were now in the Italian section of the city, which Kaira said was called North Beach, but he didn’t see any sand or water. The streets were lined with Italian restaurants, cafés, bookstores, and other small shops. One shop sold nothing but old postcards. “It’s not a beach,” Kaira explained. “It’s just called that.” “Kind of like Camp Green Lake,” said Armpit.”
― Louis Sachar, Small Steps

“Kaira sat on the floor and ate her ice cream right out of the carton.”
― Louis Sachar, Small Steps

“No bull—”
― Louis Sachar, Small Steps