73 Quotes by Linda Sue Park

It was all about words. If words weren't important, they wouldn't try so hard to take them away.

A mistake made with good in your heart is still a mistake, but it is one for which you must forgive yourself.

The line between passionate and crazy can be a thin one.

Girls. The oldest mystery in the universe.

And she found her voice. "Thank you," she said, and looked up at him bravely. "Thank you for bringing the water.

How could an alphabet—letters that didn't even mean anything by themselves—be important?But it was important. Our stories, our names, our alphabet. Even Uncle's newspaper.It was all about words.If words weren't important, they wouldn't try so hard to take them away.

If a man is keeping an idea to himself, and that idea is taken by stealth or trickery-I say it is stealing. But once a man has revealed his idea to others, it is no longer his alone. It belongs to the world.

The boy was still looking at him. "Your family?" he asked.Salva shook his head."Me, too, " the boy said. He sighed, and Salva heard that sigh all the way to his heart.

I often have trouble falling asleep at night, so when I'm lying in bed I think up stories. That's where I do a lot of my thinking. I also get a lot of ideas while I'm reading - sometimes reading someone else's stories will make me think of one of my own.