“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 Copy Share Image
I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody. — Richard Peck 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 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
“I read because one life isn’t enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody.” — 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 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 Copy Share Image
I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing. — Richard Peck 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 meet everybody,… — Richard Peck 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 times, you… — Richard Peck 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 the wide… — 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 Copy Share Image
The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized. — 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 words that… — 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 in her… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
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