Fiction isn't what 'was'. It's 'what if'?

Richard Peck
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  1. The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love you. Like that.) - William Goldman

  2. Everything I know, I know because of love. - Leo Tolstoy

  3. We are born to love as we are born to die, and between the heartbeats of those two great mysteries lies all the tangled undergrowth of our tiny lives. There is nowhere to go but through. And so we walk on, lost, and lost again,... - Tim Farrington

  4. She puts her hands on either side of my face, and the room falls away. I have never gotten so lost in a kiss before. And then, the space between us explodes. My heart keeps missing beats and my hands cannot bring her close enough... - Jodi Picoult

  5. Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. - Arthur Conan Doyle

More Quotes By Richard Peck
  1. We write by the light of every story we have ever read.

  2. [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.

  3. The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.

  4. Only the nonreader fears books.

  5. Never worry about a book corrupting a child. Worry if your children are not getting ideas from books.

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