If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.
Richard PeckThe years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized.
Richard PeckMartin Wilson's What They Always Tell Us hears the voices of the young as they struggle toward adulthood.
Richard PeckSeptember 11 We thought we'd outdistanced history Told our children it was nowhere near; Even when history struck Columbine, It didn't happen here. We took down the maps in the classroom, And when they were safely furled, We told the young what they wanted to hear, That they were immune from a menacing world. But history isn't a folded-up map, Or an unread textbook tome; Now we know history's a fireman's child Waiting at home alone.
Richard Peck