Left hand Quote by Theresa Breslin

“The Maestro spoke again. "When we are not, at what point do we become?" I could not reply. For I had grasped no shape…

— Theresa Breslin

In addition to being a writer, I'm a librarian - professionally trained and everything.

— Theresa Breslin

“What makes a human being want to kill another who has done him no personal harm? Patriotism.”

— Theresa Breslin

“I must tell you this, Maggie. Your letters are my lifeline. Your threat to stop them terrified me. Never stop writing to me, I…

— Theresa Breslin

“If you are not a Conchie, what are you man?' demanded the Major. After some moments' thought, Francis said, 'I am a human being…

— Theresa Breslin

“This was not completely true. I had run so fast that I still had a stitch in my side, but I did not want…

— Theresa Breslin

“Being illegitimate is a technicality. It does not mean that there is anything wrong with you. Men use "bastard" as a curse. But to…

— Theresa Breslin

“The scribe was a strict teacher and he did not accept anything less than perfect... Like a mother sensing the baby quickening within her,…

— Theresa Breslin

One of the reasons I began to write was because I wanted stories for my children where the characters spoke as they did and…

— Theresa Breslin

In order to deliver the emotional truth in the story, you have to include some of the literal truth.

— Theresa Breslin

My hope is for a literature that raises the language above the ordinary, makes words both functional and emotional, and to resonate at the…

— Theresa Breslin

When I was young, I read everything I could lay my hands on, but the Scots in my storybooks spent their time fighting glorious…

— Theresa Breslin