“ Stay away from people who don't know who they are but want you to be just like them. People who'll want to label you. People who'll try to write their fears on your face. Richard Peck
“ Never worry about a book corrupting a child. Worry if your children are not getting ideas from books. Richard Peck
“ 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. Richard Peck
“ We thought he was weird. He thought we were weird. It was great. It was what multiculturalism ought to be -Archer Richard Peck
“ 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… Richard Peck
“ [A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived. Richard Peck
“ We'd gotten him wrong. He wasn't a dunce. He was an artist. According to these pages, he'd seen us all a good deal clearer than we'd ever seen him. Richard Peck
