...they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.
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.
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;…
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.
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.
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.
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.
Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer. - Richard Peck
Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.
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