Dale Peck Quotes

I'm sorry, I don't understand. Could you tell me more about this 'profanity'?Mrs. Miller nodded at my dictionary. I'll assume you don't need a definition. Perhaps you'd prefer an example?That would be...

I have a secret. And everyone knows it but me.

About Author

Dale Peck (born 1967) is an American novelist, literary critic, and columnist. His 2009 novel, Sprout, won the Lambda Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature , and was a finalist for the Stonewall Book Award in the Children's and Young Adult Literature category.

Your past comes with you no matter where you go.

Children, Mrs. Oakenfeld sighed.I do not want you to be good to avoid being punished. I do not want you to be good so that you can receive rewards. I want you to be good, she stressed, because it is t...

Because freedom, it turned out, wasn't like a new shoe: you didn't need to break it in. It felt comfortable the first time you tried it on. It wasn't the present that pinched, it was the past.

Life's cheap out here, Daniel. With a little budgeting I can get by till you go off to college.And then?My dad reached for whatever he was drinking that day.There don't always have to be a then. He po...

Sometimes when we think we’re protecting ourselves, we’re really hurting ourselves. And sometimes the people around us too.

You are - she stopped fanning long enough to push the glasses up her nose - Sprout Bradford?I thought it was a little pretentious to say You are Sprout Bradford? instead of Are you Sprout Bradford? so...

I hate it when people repeat the last thing that’s been said to them because they’re too afraid to ask what the other person meant by it. You want to remember this moment, I said finally, because when...

There's an alchemy that happens during sex that causes 1 + 1 to add up to much more than 2, even as those halves meld in an almost magical way to form a single unit that's more complete than either of...