We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about. — Richard Peck Inspirational Copy Share Image
“Besdies, to turn me ladylike might have rendered me useless and possibly ornamental.” — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world. — Richard Peck Drama Copy Share Image
I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language. — Richard Peck Foreign language Copy Share Image
I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing. — Richard Peck Bird Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city. — Richard Peck Big cities Copy Share Image
If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother. — Richard Peck Communication Copy Share Image
“That's the way people is who ain't goin' anyplace in life theirselves. They don't want you goin' anyplace either.” — Richard Peck Life Copy Share Image
I read because one of these days I'm going to get out of this town, and I'm going to go everywhere and… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
“But it was a rich, picture-perfect, it-can't-happen-here kind of suburb where people had gone, not to deal with life's problems, but to… — Richard Peck Life Copy Share Image
...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… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of… — Richard Peck Adults Copy Share Image
That meant I could come back whenever I could manage it. And she was telling me to go. She knew the decision… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of… — Richard Peck Family Copy Share Image
“Stay away from people who don't know who they are but want you to be just like them. People who'll want to… — Richard Peck Best-life Copy Share Image
“She said that time was like the Mississippi River. It only flows in one direction. She meant you could never go back.… — Richard Peck Mississippi river Copy Share Image
“The Shambaughs came, bringing Letty. She simpered up to me. Her eyes summed up the lace tippets on my Princess dress and… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
September 11 We thought we'd outdistanced history Told our children it was nowhere near; Even when history struck Columbine, It didn't happen… — Richard Peck Children Copy Share Image
“And don’t look for anything out of the law around here,” she said. “The Cowgills and the Leapers is kin to the… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
“Blue lightning flashed in the kitchen, and for a split second you could see every calendar on the wall in there. Than… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
“I read because one life isn't enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody; I read because the… — Richard Peck Books Copy Share Image
Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
Grandma, how old is she?" "Oh I don't know." Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
“I read because one life isn’t enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody.” — Richard Peck Book Copy Share Image
“A solider must leave someone behind,' she said. 'What men do best is walk away from women. Wars are handy for that.” — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair. — Richard Peck Book Copy Share Image
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