"I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want them to make the connection that books are people's stories, that writing is talking on paper, and I want them to write their own stories. I'd like my books to provide that connection for them."

-- Patricia Reilly Giff

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“The Irish tell the story of a man who arrives at the gates of heaven and asks to be let in St. Peter says, â€œOf course, just show us your scars.â€ The man says, â€œI have no scarsâ€. St. Peter says, â€œWhat a pity was there nothing worth fighting forâ€?”
“Mean people are no fun.”

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“Dachau has been my own lifelong point of no return. Between the moment when I walked through the gate of that prison, with its infamous motto, 'Arbeit Macht Frei,' and when I walked out at the end of a day that had no ordinary scale of hours, I was changed, and how I looked at the human condition, the world we live in, changed ... Years of war had taught me a great deal, but war was nothing like Dachau. Compared to Dachau, war was clean.”
“What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?”
“The great challenge of the twentieth century ... is to create a new financial architecture in which private decisions produce a less degenerate capitalism.”
“If you accept all the praise, you have to accept all the critics.”
“Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy andnational security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.”

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“Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.”

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