Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and because of the methods educators use to bring a particular story alive. — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
The premise of 'Deadline' forced me to go against my own grain with a character determined to find all that is valuable in that time. I believe this is a story about redemption; how, even with the best intentions, it's… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
I think when you’re dying you start looking for important things in the corners. You can’t let anything that seems even semi-important pass, because… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
“The distances across that atom, in relative measure, are the same as the distances across the universe. So there is no big and no… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
No amount of effort could have stopped that, because our points of view - the way we perceive things - are inextricably linked to… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
If someone's different from you and it scares you or makes you mad, that's God telling you to take a closer look. If you're… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
Certainly working with teens keeps me up to date with language and with certain kinds of thinking. I often feel like I have to… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
“Love, in the universal sense, is unconditional acceptance. In the individual sense, the one-on-one sense, try this: we can say we love each other… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
We get crazy when we can't make things be like the world tells us they are". She looked back out the window. "It was… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
It seems to me if you don't know anything about child development you shouldn't intimate in your 'reporting' that you do. — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
“See, Mr. Nak'll be talking about how anger comes creeping up, hoping you're not paying attention so it can trick you into something really… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
So you didn’t tell me it was a messed-up idea to keep this all a secret because. . .” “Because experience is the only… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
