That meant I could come back whenever I could manage it. And she was telling me to go. She knew the decision was too big a load for me to carry by myself. She knew me through and through. She had eyes in the back of her heart.
I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language. - Richard Peck
I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language.
- Richard Peck
We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about. - Richard Peck
We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about.
Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city. - Richard Peck
Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.
Grandma, how old is she?" "Oh I don't know." Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings in her neck. - Richard Peck
Grandma, how old is she?" "Oh I don't know." Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings in her neck.
Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in the machine; Read while the dinner cooks;… - Richard Peck
Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in the machine; Read while the dinner cooks;…
Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself. - Richard Peck
Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.
Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer. - Richard Peck
Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.
If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places. - Richard Peck
If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.
[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived. - Richard Peck
[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.
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