Quotes by Margaret Peterson Haddix

He looked at the piles of food again, and it was like he was seeing it with new eyes. This is wrong, he thought, Letting food rot while people die of hunger. Its evil.....He breathed in the too-sweet smell of rotting food, I can stop this evil.

I was there laughing and joking with everyone else, but it’s like there was some part of mestanding back, watching, thinking, “Is this as good as it gets?

Ah, jeez... She really is a cheerleader. And it seemed suddenly that this was true- not because she was an airhead or a hottie or a nonjock, but because she could throw herself so wholeheartedly into someone elses cause, because she could care so much and try so hard from the sidelines.

I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me.

Theres something about each of my books that Im really proud of, and theres something about each of my books that I cringe over.

I was Pandora, bound and determined to open that box.

We can hope.

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.

I cant go back to being who I used to be!Hadley looked down at him sympathetically.None of us can, kid. he said. Thats the point. You get what you get. Life changes you. Time travel or no, you always have to build on what you live through.

At times like this, Eryn didnt feel like they were just twins. They were teammates. They were partners. They were two halves of the same brain.

Jen, we did it. Everyones free now.

That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin - doesnt seem to belong on it.

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.

We will not be stupid girls. We will not be powerless girls. We will not be useless girls

The truth is, time travel is hard, and people are lazy.

He made time travel sound almost like hide-and-seek or capture the flag or some other spylike game--only with higher stakes and greater consequences.

Because, he said in an even voice, youre used to winning, so you dont even think about how, every time theres a game, both sides get that rah, rah, team speech from their coaches both sides hear youre the best! Youve got to win! Youre the greatest! But half of the people playing that game are going to walk away losers. Half!

“And Nedley started saying,Shut Up!Quit that! And i knew it really meant something to him. So I asked for his help,Mark said. Dont tell the story like that, Nedley laughed. What he said was Quit pretendin youre a bad guy I need your help, and I need it now!”