43 Quotes by Richard Peck

I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.

Martin Wilson’s What They Always Tell Us hears the voices of the young as they struggle toward adulthood...

With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world.

I’m so far gone that I’m telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language.

This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It’s just that simple.

Never trust an ugly woman. She’s got a grudge against the world,′ said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.

That meant I could come back whenever I could manage it. And she was telling me to go. She knew the decision was too big a load for me to carry by myself. She knew me through and through. She had eyes in the back of her heart.

So there is some justice in this world, though not a lot.

We don’t write what we know. We write what we wonder about.