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“Challenge isn't going to come from any curriculum, no matter how hard they make it. It's going to come from life.”
― Gordon Korman, Ungifted

“the knoll”
― Gordon Korman, Ungifted

“All at once, Darren's voice called, "I've got it! It's here!”
― Gordon Korman, Swindle

“That Mesozoic mama's boy wouldn't have lasted five seconds in the Cretaceous period.”
― Gordon Korman, Guys Write for Guys Read

“I have a percription ferret. I'm not a good judge of weird.”
― Gordon Korman

“Dear Mr. Weston,
Hello again. We were beginning to wonder what had happened to you. I guess things have been pretty quiet since the Salvation Army tried to take over the world.
We are sorry, but after much deliberation we have elected not to assign any men to Protect Trillium Air Base. We feel that the Forces can protect themselves, and if they can't, who is going to protect the country?
Also, thank you for sending us that shard of broken glass with the fingerprint on it. It was yours. Our mail clerk required four stitches and a tetanus shot.
Relay our condolences to your Mr. Waghorn. We have no idea what unfortunate circumstance (for him) drew him to your ever-watchful attention, but he has no criminal record and his face is not known to us. Yours Sincerely,
Bruce Hmmm, thought Sidney, Waghorn has no criminal record.
"Let me see one of those," said Tom.
"I'm sorry, Tom, but I can't show you the letters."
Tom muttered something about a lack of trust. He was extremely alarmed at the intensity of Sidney's expression. As Sidney himself would have put it, the investigation was progressing. That meant trouble. There was always trouble when his brother got to the letter-writing stage. Tom would have to stay on his toes.
Sidney opened the last letter. Dear Mr. Weston,
Please stop bothering us. Cordially yours,
The Ontario Provincial Police.”
― Gordon Korman, Our Man Weston

“But here, two thousand miles from home, there was a real shipwreck, a real hope. A choice big enough to change our lives forever.”
― Gordon Korman

“According to the mate, there were three main jobs that needed to be done to ensure their survival.”
― Gordon Korman

“It's a shame that money has to enter into everything.”
― Gordan Korman

“The thing about a cavity search is this: it has nothing to do with the dentist.”
― Gordan Korman

“They've got these things called lockers," I raved on. "The Halls are lined with them. And you won't believe what they're for! They're for locking stuff away-so other people won't steal it! Why can't everyone share?" ~ Cap”
― Gordon Korman, Schooled

“Slime him, sis," Dan urged, "Make him a redcoat.”
― Gordon Korman, One False Note

“Amy, since when do you have a boyfriend?”
― Gordon Korman, The Medusa Plot

“What did Romeo and Juliet do?”
They died,” I remind her gently. “Some mix-up with the poison-”
― Gordon Korman

“Hamilton was bug-eyed. "Who are those people?"
Jonah held his head. "Man, I should have known it was a mistake to say I'd be leaving town soon! Why do fans have to be so literal?"
"Are they going to let us go get the faxes?" Hamilton asked.
Jonah stared at him. "You're kidding, right?”
― Gordon Korman, The Medusa Plot

“Check it out."
Jonah removed the bubble wrap and held up the picture for his three cousins.
Dan took a step backward. The shock was almost as powerful as it had been the day before at the Uffizi. "It's perfect! It's every bit as disgusting as the real one!"
Amy nodded. "And so fast. We only called you yesterday."
Jonah shrugged. "Even the Janus take a short cut every now and then. You can do a lot with digitization these days. You break the picture down to squares and reproduce them one at a time. The other two are just as fly."
"You mean, hog ugly," Hamilton amended.
"The serpents don't help," Dan put in critically. "Live fat spaghetti. Lady, if you're thinking of a modeling career, forget it!"
The rapper clucked sympathetically. "You guys just don't appreciate the power of the visual image. The Wiz used to be like that–until Gangsta Kronikles. When you're in film industry, you understand the whole picture's-worth-a-thousand-words deal."
Hamilton rolled his eyes. "Here we go again.”
― Gordon Korman, The Medusa Plot

“Be the Ambulance. Make toast.”
― Gordon Korman

“Sugar maple!" Mary-Todd Holt knelt over her husband. "Are you all right?"
Eisenhower sat up, and egg-size lump blooming on his crown. "Of course I'm all right!" he managed, his words slurred. "You think a little insect can stop me?"
Reagan was unconvinced. "I don't know, Dad. She brained you with a baseball bat!"
"Hockey stick," Dan corrected.
"Those could be your last words, brat–”
― Gordon Korman, One False Note

“They crested a rise, and there it was, in the hollow between rolling hills—a low, square building, ghostly gray in the moonlight.
"Is that it?" asked Hamilton.
"It probably isn't the local opera house," groaned Ian.”
― Gordon Korman, The Medusa Plot

“A bronze plaque read: GAIUS PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS
Dan made a face. "Get a load of the guy with the funny name."
"I think that's Pliny the younger, the famous Roman writer," Amy supplied. She bent down to read the English portion of the tablet. "Right. In A.D. 79, Pliny chronicled the destruction of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. It's one of the earliest eyewitness accounts of a major disaster."
Dan yawned. "Doesn't this remind you of the clue hunt? You know–you telling me a bunch of boring stuff, and me not listening?”
― Gordon Korman, The Medusa Plot

“If the cake fits, eat it!”
― Gordon Korman

“Art theft gave a guy an appetite.”
― Gordon Korman, The Medusa Plot

“When we lock things away," he said with conviction, "we're really imprisoning ourselves.”
― Gordon Korman, Schooled