Richard Peck (writer) Quotes

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

Richard Peck

They'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.

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Grandma, how old is she?" "Oh I don't know." Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings in her neck.

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

Richard Peck

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

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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.

Richard Peck

Richard Peck

Richard Peck

Born: April 10, 1934

Died: May 23, 2018 (aged 84)

Bio: Richard Wayne Peck was an American novelist known for his prolific contributions to modern young adult literature. He was awarded the Newbery Medal in 2001 for his novel A Year Down Yonder For his cumulative contribution to young-adult literature he received the Margaret A.

Known for:

A Long Way from Chicago (1998)
A Year Down Yonder (2000)
A Season of Gifts (2009)
Ghosts I Have Been (1977)
The Ghost Belonged to Me (1975)

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