First Boy Quotes

“Talk is only silence that ain't workin' well.”
― Gary D. Schmidt, First Boy

“He missed him like he would miss the sun if it fell out of the sky.”
― Gary D. Schmidt, First Boy

“He felt it deep, like a stone too big to heft out of the garden. He just had to how around it and make do.”
― Gary D. Schmidt, First Boy

“Sheriff Gibbs, the vocabulary of the English language is the wonder of the whole world. Chaucer spoke it and Shakespeare and Winston Churchill. With such a precedent, you could possibly make better use of it," said Mrs. Perley.
"Huh," said Sheriff Gibbs”
― Gary D. Schmidt, First Boy

“Cooper looked at the house and tried to fix it in his mind like a painting that would never leave him. But its beauty was so think and so real that it could never be just a painting”
― Gary D. Schmidt, First Boy