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In our family, you don't get a childhood. We're too busy trying to dominate the world. -- Gordon Korman
Wonderful. What's the point of throwing a hissy fit without friends and family on hand to hear it?
-Amy Cahill -- Gordon Korman
Jonah peered critically up at the Renaissance masterpiece. "Man, those copies don't due it justice. This one's the truth!"
"Only a Janus," groaned Hamilton. -- Gordon Korman
After so many reversals of fortune today, they half expected a meteorite to hurtle from the sky and vaporize them if they dared to move. Finally, -- Gordon Korman
How you are in this place that has been sealed since the time of Caesar Augustus?" one of the archaeologists demanded in amazement.
"I was looking for my sister," Dan quipped.
"Your sister?"
"Oh - here she is." Dan reached through the opening and hauled out an equally grubby Amy. -- Gordon Korman
That's the most sexist idea I've ever heard," Nellie said harshly. "I'm female, so I have to be clueless. He's male, so he's got a great sense of direction. -- Gordon Korman
Hypothesis: Brothers and sisters forge family bonds through a complex byplay of accusations and insults. -- Gordon Korman
They've got these things called lockers," I raved on. "The Halls are lined with them. And you won't believe what they're for! They're for locking stuff away-so other people won't steal it! Why can't everyone share?" ~ Cap -- Gordon Korman
You want me to stop and give the Wizards a chance to do it?" he shot back. Dead -- Gordon Korman
Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."
"Funny name for an aircraft," Grace commented. "Is it after your wife?"
"My gun."
Grace stared at him. "You named your plane after a gun?"
"It was a very good gun. -- Gordon Korman
If it isn't on YouTube, it might as well have never happened. -- Gordon Korman
We're all proud of you, Donnie. Your mother and me, Katie - " "Right," I snorted. "She said I'm dumber than her bladder-challenged dog. -- Gordon Korman
For someone who'e smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot. -- Gordon Korman
Nellie grinned. "I always wanted to go to Venice. It's 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. -- Gordon Korman
The test! It was as if they believed the test was an infallible superbeing that had descended to earth on a great space ark surrounded by thunderbolts of perfection. -- Gordon Korman
Nellie's brow furrowed. "The great Mr. Hip-Hop Mogul standing in line with the common peasants? How do you figure that?"
Dan grinned. "I'm starting to dig this 'no cars' thing. It's a great equalizer. -- Gordon Korman
What does it feel like to get shot?"
"I don't recommend it," said Nellie in a controlled voice. "Chocolate is definitely better. -- Gordon Korman
But here, two thousand miles from home, there was a real shipwreck, a real hope. A choice big enough to change our lives forever. -- Gordon Korman
Dan inched closer. "Are her eyelids moving?"
Jonah was on his feet now, cheerleading. "Get up, babysitter! Up! Up! -- Gordon Korman
Ian Kabra rolled up his window. "My god, what's that smell?"
Behind the wheel, Sinead laughed. "It's called fresh air. Growing up in London, you've probably never breathed it before."
"And I hope I never breathe it again. -- Gordon Korman
Sinead broke in. "The cops need to know what to do with Evan, Amy. What should I tell them?"
"Shoot to kill?" Ian suggested. -- Gordon Korman
It's a shame that money has to enter into everything. -- Gordon Korman
you-know-who." Amy -- Gordon Korman
The phone rang in the comm. center. Ian consulted the monitor. "It's Dan." He pressed a button. "Kabra here."
Dan's voice crackled through the attic. "Don't say it like that," he complained. "Your name still gives me heartburn. -- Gordon Korman
Amy, since when do you have a boyfriend? -- Gordon Korman
Oh, no-" They weren't even on the runway, and Jonah's father was already immersed in his BlackBerry. "Remember those 'Live Large with the Wiz Generation' posters? Well, guess how that translates into Chinese- 'Jonah Wizard Makes Your Ancestors Fat'. -- Gordon Korman
What's a starbuck? -- Gordon Korman
I've taken care of it," I said My 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 he's gone. -- Gordon Korman
Don't think of it as losing a boyfriend. Think of it as gaining a stalker.
-Dan Cahill -- Gordon Korman
Hamilton was bug-eyed. "Who are those people?"
Jonah held his head. "Man, I should have known it was a mistake to say I'd be leaving town soon! Why do fans have to be so literal?"
"Are they going to let us go get the faxes?" Hamilton asked.
Jonah stared at him. "You're kidding, right? -- Gordon Korman
fact, it's just crazy enough to be the kind of thing that actually happens in your family. A regular hiding place isn't good enough for you Froot Loops; you have to use Mount Everest! -- Gordon Korman
I'm supposed to talk some sense into you," she told me. "But what I really want to say is congratulations. You did the right thing." "The police don't think so." "Typical," she clucked. "Getting hung up on the numbers on your birth certificate when you probably saved a life." "They made -- Gordon Korman
During construction, when a worker died, his body was built right into the Wall itself. No one knew how many corpses lay within the stone and mortar, but some estimates ran as high as three million souls. -- Gordon Korman
There's always a way," his sister lectured. "We'll need help, though."
"What help?"
Amy grinned. "Sometimes it doesn't hurt to be a part of the most powerful family in human history. -- Gordon Korman
Global warming doesn't care what's in your bank account.
-Sinead Starling -- Gordon Korman
Amy hugged Sinead, and Dan scratched Saladin. Later, Saladin. Take it easy on Kabra. On second thought, don't. -- Gordon Korman
They crested a rise, and there it was, in the hollow between rolling hills - a low, square building, ghostly gray in the moonlight.
"Is that it?" asked Hamilton.
"It probably isn't the local opera house," groaned Ian. -- Gordon Korman
Art theft gave a guy an appetite. -- Gordon Korman
No fair! Those guys ripped off what we rightfully stole! -- Gordon Korman
Who's Evan?" Ian asked.
"Amy's boyfriend!"
"Amy, since when do you have a boyfriend?" Ian probed.
"Since none of your business! -- Gordon Korman
We don't have to love it. We just have to steal it. -- Gordon Korman
The thing about a cavity search is this: it has nothing to do with the dentist. -- Gordon Korman
It's cat food - it's for people like you!" Saladin -- Gordon Korman
It's like living your whole life without ever looking in a mirror, Amy thought, and suddenly you see your reflection, and you're a monster. -- Gordon Korman
The Bombyx mori caterpillar," her brother supplied, thinking of snack time at the Shaolin Temple. "It tastes like chicken. -- Gordon Korman
Ask yourself: 'Do I feel the need to laminate?' Then teaching is for you. -- Gordon Korman
According to the mate, there were three main jobs that needed to be done to ensure their survival. -- Gordon Korman
Challenge isn't going to come from any curriculum, no matter how hard they make it. It's going to come from life. -- Gordon Korman
Be the Ambulance. Make toast. -- Gordon Korman
You don't get Billie Joe Armstrong's autograph on your forehead without following your instincts. -- Gordon Korman
Mr. McIntyre, friend or enemy? -- Gordon Korman
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. -- Gordon Korman
Slime him, sis," Dan urged, "Make him a redcoat. -- Gordon Korman
We didn't stow away!" Dan protested. "You sunk our boat and pulled us out of the canal!"
"Good point," Ian agreed. "Return them to the canal. Roughly, please. -- Gordon Korman
We're gifted," I explained. -- Gordon Korman
I have a percription ferret. I'm not a good judge of weird. -- Gordon Korman
On with the chase. -- Gordon Korman
the yard. When Ben knocked on Griffin's door the next morning on his way to school, he was surprised when the door was answered by Mrs. -- Gordon Korman
Hypothesis: Intentional or not, movement to a beat = dancing. -- Gordon Korman
Wolfram," Dan mused, a far-off look in his eye. "I've heard of that from somewhere." Amy was skeptical. "Are you sure you're not thinking of Wolfgang? -- Gordon Korman
That Mesozoic mama's boy wouldn't have lasted five seconds in the Cretaceous period. -- Gordon Korman
He felt old at eleven. Amy -- Gordon Korman
Your pants didn't get smaller, Mommy," I assured her. "Your butt got bigger. -- Gordon Korman
I hate France. It's like the whole country's on a diet -- Gordon Korman
What did Romeo and Juliet do?"
They died," I remind her gently. "Some mix-up with the poison- -- Gordon Korman
Welcome to the world of Cahills. If it isn't impossible, it isn't worth doing. -- Gordon Korman
Never trust a Cahill." They -- Gordon Korman
When we lock things away," he said with conviction, "we're really imprisoning ourselves. -- Gordon Korman
If the cake fits, eat it! -- Gordon Korman
Ask me. I'm a cow expert. -- Gordon Korman