Jack Gantos famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times.
-- Jack Gantos

#Character #Decision #Tests
I want you to take a sleeve of Thin Mints and line them up on the edge of the kitchen counter and when I'm hungry I can just bend over and sweep a cookie into my mouth like I'm scoring a goal in hockey.
-- Jack Gantos

#Hockey #Goal #Kitchen
If you have an orderly mind, you'll be a winner no matter where you end up. If your mind is a jumble of junk, you'll be a loser. It's as simple as that.
-- Jack Gantos

#Simple #Mind #Junk
You know, Joey, the medication has helped settle you down, but you have been a good kid all along. You are naturally good. I hope you know that about yourself. You have a good heart.
-- Jack Gantos

#Heart #Kids #Settling
When Patti Fox broke up with me, I typed her name over a thousand times on my manual Olivetti until the entire page was beaten into a stiff sheet of black ink.
-- Jack Gantos

#Names #Black #Ink
You can't do anything for a person who is stuck between being happy and being miserable. All you can do is get trapped in the middle, and anyone in the middle just gets squished.' -Grandma
-- Jack Gantos

#Grandma #Miserable #Middle
You gotta face the hand you're dealt with and deal with it, and make your problems be the smallest part of who you are.
-- Jack Gantos

#Hands #Faces #Problem
Don't ever forget your history," she sang, "or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it.
-- Jack Gantos

#Lying #Soul #Wicked
It wasn't that I hated being asked a bunch of questions. I had nothing against questions. I just didn't like listening to them, because some questions take forever to make sense. Sometimes waiting for a question to finish is like watching someone draw an elephant starting with the tail first. As soon as you see the tail your mind wanders all over the place and you think of a million other animals that also have tails until you don't care about the elephant because it's only one thing when you've been thinking about a million others.
-- Jack Gantos

#Thinking #Animal #Elephants
It's like when you read a book and you know that the words are important, but the images blossoming in your imagination are even more important because it's your mind that allows the words to come to life.
-- Jack Gantos

#Book #Imagination #Mind
Don't ever go to war. Even if you win, the battle is never over inside you.
-- Jack Gantos

#War #Winning #Battle
Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didnâ€™t want to read them and then just put them back on the shelf and say, â€œgood book,â€ as if I was patting a good dog. I wanted books to change me, and I wanted to write books that would change others.
-- Jack Gantos

#Dog #Book #Writing
Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth.
-- Jack Gantos

#Book #Envy #Dumb
...who proved that you don't have to do what your parents want, or what your boyfriend wants, for you to be happy. You just have to be yourself, for there is no love greater than self love
-- Jack Gantos

#Being Yourself #Self Love #Parent
Because each book has its own special perfume.
-- Jack Gantos

#Book #Special #Perfume

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