Margaret Peterson Haddix

“I start to think, 'It's awful being too poor to even buy my own dress for homecoming.' But that's instantly swept away…

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

“I have a choice.”

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

“You bite off more than you can chew, 'course you're going to choke. One bite at a time. And that goes for…

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

“I was there laughing and joking with everyone else, but it’s like there was some part of me standing back, watching, thinking,…

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

“Maybe everyone is just waiting for some else to save them.”

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

“But, really, are there any guys out there who aren’t jerks? I don’t even know any grown-up men who aren’t jerks.”

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

“I have been thinking--" He chuckled. "Always a dangerous thing for a woman to do," he said.”

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

“Winning isn't everything," Eisenhower said faintly. "Sometimes, just knowing your family's safe and healthy and alive is even better.”

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

“I leaned my head back and closed my eyes, my mind a jumble. So much for breaking it off gently, I thought.…

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

“I wasn't asking anything about God," Jonah complained. "Yeah, you kind of were," JB said. "If there is fate, who else would…

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

“Because," he said in an even voice, "you're used to winning, so you don't even think about how, every time there's a…

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

“Most people couldn't be rich if they wanted to be honest; most people couldn't be honest if they wanted to be rich.”

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

“Why didn't you tell me that evil could be so lighthearted?”

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

“You know how to steer a yacht?" Mr. McIntyre asked Ian worriedly. "I was born knowing how to steer a yacht," Ian…

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

“It does not take a long time to fall to the ground, even from nine stories up. But it took a lifetime…

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

“But did he go to heaven?" Katherine persisted. "That's between him and God, not him and history," JB said. Alex started, jerking…

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

“Sure you can be a coward and hope somone else changes the wrld for you. You can hide up in that attic…

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

“It's people like you who change history. People like me--we just let things happen to us.”

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

“But things are so bad, I feel like I’m going to explode if I don’t do something.”

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

“It’s like I’d been walking a tightrope with a big safety net underneath me, but I never really thought about the net…

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

“People would rather believe in fairy godmothers and divine intervention than to think that you took charge of your own destiny.”

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

“The story begins like so much else,' she says slowly, 'With hope. Hope and dreams and daring...”

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

“To quote a famous philosopher revered in my time 'But this is no different from regular life. When have you ever known…

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

“We will not be stupid girls. We will not be powerless girls. We will not be useless girls”

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

“But Mother, I don't want to go. It's just that...I have to. I can't spend the rest of my life hiding in…

— Margaret Peterson Haddix