Middle Grade Reads Quotes

“Sometimes, I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
― Lewis Carroll

“Attending to your own words and ideas as well as those of others is an admirable trait in any person, but a necessity in a leader.”
― Jennifer Frick-Ruppert, Spirit Quest

“If only life were a book, and I could choose precisely what part I played.”
― Jessica Lawson, Nooks & Crannies

“Next to the day when I was almost shot by that arrow, the worst day of my life was when I was almost eaten.”
― Jennifer Frick-Ruppert, Spirit Quest

“The mind is like water. When it’s turbulent, it’s difficult to see. When it’s calm, everything becomes clear.”
― Donna Galanti, Loon Cove Summer

“It was hard to help others if you hadn’t figured out how to help yourself.”
― Elizabeth Atkinson

“They had argued a lot, but then suddenly they stopped fighting and began speaking calmly to each other, like they were strangers. That’s when I knew something was really wrong.
Mo eventually explained that she and my father were simply different peas meant to live in separate pods. You would think two adults could figure that out before they got married and had kids.”
― Elizabeth Atkinson

“Telling the truth isn't always easy to do but it will always be the right thing to do”
― Shaylene King, Liberty Lane and the One-Girl Rebelution

“Patience is when you’re supposed to be mad, but you choose to understand.”
― Donna Galanti, Loon Cove Summer

“That’s the key to one’s destiny: you must earn it.”
― Summer Nilsson

“Snow was blowing, windwards. The powder swirled, like white dust from the cosmos, about his head and feet. - The Girl in The Red Cape: A Mystical Sled Ride”
― Suzy Davies

“Fourteen-year-old Connor Hansen raced at full speed through the shiny, sterile emergency room hallways of Westley Hospital. He was excited ... and terrified. He was about to do what he had been training for almost his entire life. But if he failed, someone would die. Paramedics rushed toward him, pushing a bright-yellow gurney that carried a bloodied, lifeless man whose heart had stopped beating. It was Connor's job to get the man's heart started again. Connor was a doctor.”
― J.W. Lynne, Kid Docs

“My dear children, words can heal, and words can hurt. Use them wisely, and you'll find that you can create wonders with them.”
― Myra Kaur, An Angel's Calling

“My thoughts often are a war of fear and courage.”
― Myra Kaur, An Angel's Calling

“I thought you said silver foxes were, like, a good-looking old bloke?
They're rare. Not endangered. Yet.
Blokes or foxes?”
― J.A. Browne, Hannah and the Hollow Tree

“Hannah's mouth falls open. She looks across to where my resting body lies, then back at me. Her eyes never meet mine. She thinks I'm dead.”
― J.A. Browne, Hannah and the Hollow Tree

“Gran, seriously, you are one scary old bird.
Er, firebird. Not old bird, if you please.”
― J.A. Browne, Hannah and the Hollow Tree

“Hollow Tree, I am here to ask for your help.”
― J.A. Browne, Hannah and the Hollow Tree

“You can’t get lost. You take yourself with you wherever you go.”
― Donna Galanti, Loon Cove Summer

“Love makes us say crazy things. It doesn’t mean we stop loving people.”
― Donna Galanti, Loon Cove Summer

“Holding anger in is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.”
― Donna Galanti, Loon Cove Summer

“Miracles start to happen when you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears.”
― Donna Galanti, Loon Cove Summer

“Nothing is permanent. If it were, nothing new would be possible. So, think of the possibilities.”
― Donna Galanti, Loon Cove Summer

“If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path”
― Donna Galanti, Loon Cove Summer

“Food fills the belly and heart of those who eat together.”
― Donna Galanti, Loon Cove Summer

“Put your wish out there and the universe will conspire to make it happen.”
― Donna Galanti, Loon Cove Summer

“Forgiveness is a gift to yourself. It frees you from the past and allows you to live in the present.”
― Donna Galanti, Loon Cove Summer

“No one person is separate from others.”
― Donna Galanti, Loon Cove Summer

“We are all surviving something. A life well spent is also a life well lived.”
― Donna Galanti, Loon Cove Summer

“But somehow, I sensed it would be better to wait and see what happened before jumping immediately to murder.

In fact, if you are reading this and feeling like murder is possibly your only choice, I urge you to wait. Just wait and see. Perhaps you will not need to kill anyone. You never know.”
― Kate Lexie, Do Not Pet the King