The Wednesday Wars Quotes
"The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath."
"Nothing so much as a pound of flesh is at stake."
"Repetition is not always a rhetorical virtue."
"A southwest blow on ye and blister you all o'er!"
"As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed with raven's feather from unwholesome fen drop on you."
"Now does my project gather to a head. My charms crack not, my spirits obey, and Time Goes upright with his carriage. How’s the day?"
"On the sixth hour, at which time, my lord, You said our work should cease."
"Confined together In the same fashion as you gave in charge, Just as you left them."
"We are made for more than power. We are made for more than our desires."
"That pride combined with stubbornness can be disaster."
"Compared with love, malice is a small and petty thing."
"Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still."
"When gods die, they die hard. It's not like they fade away, or grow old, or fall asleep."
"They die in fire and pain, and when they come out of you, they leave your guts burned."
"Sometimes, the quality of mercy is strained."
"Shakespeare did not write for your ease of reading."
"He wrote to express something about what it means to be a human being in words more beautiful than had ever yet been written."
"We come back to school thinking that it’s no longer just the end of winter; it’s almost the beginning of summer."
"Learn everything you can—and then use all that you have learned to grow up to be a wise and good man."
"The first time you know you really care about something is when you think about it not being there."
"You don’t have to be Shakespeare to know that’s not the way it happens in the real world."
"In the real world, people fall out of love little by little, not all at once."
"And sometimes the real world is more like Bobby Kennedy, who was a sure bet for the Democratic nomination and probably would have been president of the United States and stopped the war, but who got shot at point-blank range."
"Every lunch after a long hike tastes good. Especially if it’s on a day off from school."
"And that’s why long after midnight, after everyone else had turned their sleeping bags inside out, shaken them, then turned them back and crawled in and zipped them up over their heads, Danny and Mai Thi and Meryl Lee and Doug and I and Mrs. Baker—I guess the part about the snakes got to her, too—were sitting around the fire as the flames faded and the blue and gold embers glowed like jewels."
"I think that if I had told Shakespeare about the river, he would have said, "All this amazement can I qualify"—but he would have been wrong, since what I saw was something more beautiful than has ever been written."
"You get a good job and you provide for your family. You hang on, and you play for keeps."
"It's not just about a job. It's more. It has to do with choosing for yourself."
"A comedy isn’t about being funny. A comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all."
"I think he became a man who brought peace and wisdom to his world, because he knew about war and folly."
"The only thing I ever owned that hadn’t belonged to some other Swieteck before me."
"Most days he comes home red-faced with his eyes half closed and with that deadly silence."
"You think Joe Pepitone’s jacket is hanging up in her basement?"
"Make good decisions and remember who you are."