Jennifer L. Holm Quotes

Libraries help you to dream!

What is it with folks always talking about where they’re from? You could grow up in a muddy ditch, but if it’s your muddy ditch, then it’s gotta be the swellest muddy ditch ever.

Almost dying is awfully easy. It’s the living that’s hard.

This, I thought, was true love. Someone who made you happy without saying a word.

Comics can really help kids become confident readers. They can teach kids the fundamentals – inference, tracking from left to right, learning how dialogue works. I want everyone to know what useful tools comics can be in helping and encouraging our kids to read.

Everyone things children are sweet as Necco Wafers, but I’ve lived long enough to know the truth: kids are rotten. The only difference between grown-ups and kids is that grown-ups go to jail for murder. Kids get away with it.