Quotes by Gordon Korman

Nellie grinned. I always wanted to go to Venice. Its supposed to be the romance capital of the world.Sweet, put in Dan. Too bad your date is an Egyptian Mau on a hunger strike.The au pair sighed. Better than an eleven-year-old with a big mouth.

Ask yourself: Do I feel the need to laminate? Then teaching is for you.

He watched in awe as she stacked up an enormous armload of music. There, she finished, slapping Frank Zappas Greatest Hits on top of the pile. That should do for a start. You are a music lover, said the wide-eyed cashier. No, Im a kleptomaniac. And she dashed out the door. He was so utterly shocked that it took him a moment to run after her. With a meaningful nod in the direction of the astounded Cahills, she barreled down the cobblestone street with her load. Fermati! shouted the cashier, scrambling in breathless pursuit. Nellie let a few CDs drop and watched with satisfaction over her shoulder as the clerk stopped to pick them up. The trick would be to keep the chase going just long enough for Amy and Dan to search Disco Volante. Yikes, she reflected suddenly, Im starting to think like a Cahill.... And if she was nuts enough to hang around this family, it was only going to get worse.

Ive taken care of it, I saidMy father looked at me, shocked.Then I realized taken care of had a very specific meaning in his line of work.No, no, I mean hes gone.

For someone whoe smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes youre a real idiot.

You did a politics project on a government that got overthrown on the due date? Man, did anybody ever tell you youve got no luck?I suspected it, said Raymond ironically.

You know what punk is? a bunch of no-talent guys who really, really want to be in a band. Nobody reads music, nobody plays the mandolin, and youre too dumb to write songs about mythology or Middle-earth. So whats your style? Three chords, cranked out fast and loud and distorted because your instruments are crap and you cant play them worth a damn. And you scream your lungs out to cover up the fact that you cant sing. It should suck, but heres the thing - it doesnt. Rock and roll can be so full of itself, but not this. Its simple and angry and raw.

Amy turned to Nellie. Can you create a diversion to draw the clerk outside?The au pair was wary. What kind of diversion?You could pretend to be lost, Dan proposed. The guy comes out to give you directions, and we slip inside.Thats the most sexist idea Ive ever heard, Nellie said harshly. Im female, so I have to be clueless. Hes male, so hes got a great sense of direc

They dont have regular time at school, you know. They have periods. All of a sudden an alarm goes off and youre supposed to drop what youre doing and rush off to a different room with a different teacher to do something completely different! How can anybody learn like that?

I hate France. Its like the whole countrys on a diet

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

Registration Day by Gavin Gunhold (1899— ) Toronto Review of Poetry, 1947On registration day at taxidermy schoolI distinctly saw the eyes of the stuffed mooseMove.

The dog always dies. Go to the library and pick out a book with an award sticker and a dog on the cover. Trust me, that dog is going down.

For someone whos smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes youre a real idiot.

“For someone whoe smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes youre a real idiot.”