Margaret Peterson Haddix citations

“I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people you hate. But you must still dare to love. The rewards are worth far more than the risks.”

“I want to Live! Not Die, Not Hide, LIVE!”

“Maybe everyone is just waiting for someone else to save them.”

“… even the most independent people sometimes needed help. And if I'd learned nothing else from my life thus far, it was that you don't always end up where you think you're going.”

“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.”

“I like to know what I'm celebrating before I put on a party hat.”

“The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival.”

“Hope doesn't mean anything…. Action's the only thing that counts.”

“Jen, we did it. Everyone's free now.”

“We'll have a 'rest of our lives' now”

“bitter is a bad way to live!”

“There's hope around the corner.”

“I have a choice.”

“There is nothing more valuable than the printed word.”