Linked Gordon Korman Quotes

We can’t change the past. All we can do is work hard to make things right in the future.

You know how eighth graders are anti-everything? Well, sixth graders are the opposite of that. They’re super gung ho, since being in middle school is still a big deal for them. Give them a year—they’ll wise up.

A paper chain can be done when it hits a certain number of links. But tolerance is a project you always have to keep working at.

We all do jerky things,” she assures me. “It’s what you do next that matters.

We all do jerky things," she assures me. "It’s what you do next that matters.

genocide!

All I can think of is that this makes me the greatest seventh-grade president in the history of student government.

Link, there hasn’t been time for me to give you much of a formal Jewish education. But you might remember from Sunday school some of the stories of the Old Testament. God forgives us—and by doing that, God shows us how to forgive each other. Even more important, those of us who’ve been forgiven spend the rest of our lives trying to be worthy of that forgiveness.

I stomp away from him. I refuse to spend my time with anybody who doesn’t think this is the end of the world. If I have to listen to a guy putting a positive spin on this, my head is probably going to explode. At this moment, I want nothing but gloom, despair, negativity, and complaining.