85 Quotes by Margaret Peterson Haddix

I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe.

Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good.

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

But it’d be nice to have someone who cared about me, someone I could talk toabout anything, someone who’d tell me I was really special.

Was it still paranoia if all his fears were justified?

Ah, jeez... She really is a cheerleader.' And it seemed suddenly that this was true- not because she was an airhead or a hottie or a nonjock, but because she could throw herself so wholeheartedly into someone else's cause, because she could care so much and try so hard from the sidelines.

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

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

Why did everyone like that story so much when it wasn't true? Why was everyone so eager to believe it? Was it because, in real life, ever after's generally stink?