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I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.
— Margaret Haddix
I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.
— Margaret Haddix
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. — Margaret Peterson Haddix
I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.
— Margaret 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.
— Margaret Haddix
adulation." I stare at the
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
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.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
Amazing, Yetta thought. Back home I couldn't have chosen my own husband. And here I'm thinking about choosing presidents, governors, mayors, laws ...
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.
— Margaret Haddix
Is any history really all that ancient? ... Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present?
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
Maybe never again as long as I live. He turned and walked into the
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
ever-present, BlackBerry-obsessed dad.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
Some things just are. They can't be changed or undone or fixed.But people-people can heal. Even from events they believe are unendurable.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
I wouldn't even let your dad talk about . . .
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
bitter is a bad way to live!
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
You bite off more than you can chew, 'course you're going to choke. One bite at a time. And that goes for thinking things, too, not just food.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
It kind of seemed like, as long as he was alive, there was still hope that he could fix things.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.
— Margaret Haddix
Fail big if you have to, but go down trying.
— Margaret Haddix
I am not just what I remember. I am also what I dream.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
Luke's dad harrumphed, and paused in the midst of shoveling forkfuls of boiled potatoes into his mouth.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.
— Margaret Haddix
Jen, we did it. Everyone's free now.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
It just happened,
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
Was it still paranoia if all his fears were justified?
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
Saw the first tree shudder and fall, far off in the distance. Then he heard his mother call out the kitchen window: Luke! Inside. Now.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
I want to Live! Not Die, Not Hide, LIVE!
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
Hope doesn't mean anything ... Action's the only thing that counts.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
Sometimes you do your very best and you lose anyway.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
There is nothing more valuable than the printed word.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
Maybe everyone is just waiting for someone else to save them.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
There's hope around the corner.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
Staring into the ring of candles - proud that the number of his years finally made a ring, all around the cake
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
I was Pandora, bound and determined to open that box.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
The truth is, time travel is hard, and people are lazy.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
I have a choice.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
Does FBI mean Federal Bureau of Idiots?
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
The story begins like so much else,' she says slowly, 'With hope. Hope and dreams and daring ...
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
But, really, are there any guys out there who aren't jerks? I don't even know any grown-up men who aren't jerks.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
So," the bearded man said, "we kill this man
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
It's people like you who change history. People like mewe just let things happen to us. — Margaret Peterson Haddix
my parents are very good at bribery.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
At times like this, Eryn didn't feel like they were just twins. They were teammates. They were partners. They were two halves of the same brain.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
I like to know what I'm celebrating before I put on a party hat.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
Want to change history? Luke made a stab at humor.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
We'll have a 'rest of our lives' now,
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin - doesn't seem to belong on it.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
There was a law against Luke.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
But things are so bad, I feel like I'm going to explode if I don't do something.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
Most people couldn't be rich if they wanted to be honest; most people couldn't be honest if they wanted to be rich.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
Winning isn't everything," Eisenhower said faintly. "Sometimes, just knowing your family's safe and healthy and alive is even better.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
We will not be stupid girls. We will not be powerless girls. We will not be useless girls
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
Sometimes you have to fight for what you want,' Chip said, his expression set. 'Sometimes the fight is all you get.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
I wasn't asking anything about God," Jonah complained."Yeah, you kind of were," JB said. "If there is fate, who else would control it? — Margaret Peterson Haddix
Thanks a lot! She went and hid somewhere else, somewhere safe- and left me to deal with Mr. Pyromaniac 1483!
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
Why didn't you tell me that evil could be so lighthearted?
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
Luke pictured himself
— Margaret Peterson Haddix