Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Rebecca Stead

Quote by Rebecca Stead

Work

The Lost Library

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Rebecca Stead
Rebecca Stead

Rebecca Stead is an American author renowned for her children's literature. Born on January 16, 1968, she graduated from Harvard University with a degree in English literature. Her works have won numerous literary awards, including the Newbery Medal for Children's Literature. more

You May Also Like

“You be as angry as you need to be," she said. "Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and hard." He couldn't look at her. He just couldn't. "And if, one day," she said, really crying now, "you look back and you feel bad for being so angry, if you feel bad for being so angry at me that you couldn't even speak to me, then you have to know, Conor, you have to know that it was okay. It was okay. That I knew. I know, okay? I know everything you need to tell me without you having to say it out loud. All right?" He still couldn't look at her. He couldn't raise his head, it felt so heavy. He was bent in two, like he was being torn right down through his middle. But he nodded.”

MotivationalAnger
Book:A Monster Calls
Create image

“Patrik este un medic chirurg de renume, al cărui crez este salvarea vieților. În timp ce-și ducea existența liniștită alături de logodnica sa, Ivora, este acuzat de uciderea fostei iubite. Procurorul anchetează și alți suspecți din comunitatea promiscuă a swingerilor, din care făcuse parte victima. Destinul lui Patrik ia o turnură neașteptată atunci când ceva nebănuit se întamplă cu logodnica sa. Profund tulburat, Patrik este decis să descopere misterul Ivorei.”

Police OfficerThriller NovelsLove Books
Book:Misterul Ivorei
Create image

“Later that night though, as I stayed awake into the early hours of morning devouring the second novel in a series, I understood what it meant to befriend a book. The books knew me, far better than I knew them; they knew my fears, my doubts, my dreams. They gave words to feelings I did not even realize I experienced. They listened. They consoled. They kept me company. The books gave me a life outside of my own.”

InspirationLiteratureBooksReaderReading BooksReadWords To Live ByReadersLove To ReadReading MotivationBookloverLove Books
Book:If I Resist
Create image

“Why read? Because books are precious guides to our humanity—civilization’s backbone—that tenuous ridgeline that allows us to climb above the jungle and see what the horizon has to offer. Thus they represent the yearning to go beyond, to explore. Yet they are also human-sized . . .”

ReadingBook QuotesLearnReadThe Legacy LettersQuotes By Carew PapritzLove BooksLove Reading
Book:The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
Create image