Quotes by Rebecca Stead

Rebecca Stead

Beautiful and fresh, Girl Saves Boy is full of the absolute truth-life is complicated. I could not put it down.

Beautiful

Boys

Girl

Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds.

Boredom

Mind

People

But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.

Accepting

Bitterness

Past

Didn’t you ever have a father yourself? You don’t want him for a reason. You want him because he’s your father.’ So I figured it’s because I never had a father that I don’t want one now. A person can’t miss something she never had.

Father

Missing

Want

Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It’s how we’re used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way.

Common Sense

Thinking

Way

For me one of the most important things is not feeling like you have to protect yourself if you’re with a real friend.

Feelings

Important

Real

I don’t know whether I could visit a new neighborhood now and have a kid’s set of observations about a place. I no longer can really think like a child, though I can remember thinking like one.

Children

Remember

Thinking

I don’t know. I just feel stuck, like I’m afraid to take any steps, in case they’re the wrong ones.

Cases

Life

Steps

I feel like there are stages in many, many people’s childhoods when you don’t have one good friend. It can happen a lot in sixth and seventh grade because that’s when things are changing so quickly. It’s like a desperate dash for some kind of acceptable identity, and it can get ugly.

Childhood

Good Friend

Identity

I feel lucky that I read so many books as a kid because I know that no matter how much I appreciate a book now, and I can love a book very much, it’s never going to be that childhood passion for a book. There’s some element, something special about the way they’re reading books and experiencing books that’s finite.

Book

Kids

Reading

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Accepting

Appreciation

Beautiful

Bitterness

Black

Book

Boredom

Boys

Bunch

Cases

Childhood

Children

Common Sense

Dad

Dark

Different

Eye

Facts

Fall

Father

Feelings

Girl

Gone

Good Friend

Goodbye

Honest

Hurt

Identity

Important

Joy

Kids

Kind

Life

Life Is

Light

Loud

Lying

Mean

Memories

Men

Mind

Missing

Mom

Moments

Needs

Nice

Pajamas

Past

People

Police

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Quotes by Rebecca Stead

Rebecca Stead

Beautiful and fresh, Girl Saves Boy is full of the absolute truth-life is complicated. I could not put it down.

Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds.

But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.

Didn’t you ever have a father yourself? You don’t want him for a reason. You want him because he’s your father.’ So I figured it’s because I never had a father that I don’t want one now. A person can’t miss something she never had.

Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It’s how we’re used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way.

For me one of the most important things is not feeling like you have to protect yourself if you’re with a real friend.

I don’t know whether I could visit a new neighborhood now and have a kid’s set of observations about a place. I no longer can really think like a child, though I can remember thinking like one.

I don’t know. I just feel stuck, like I’m afraid to take any steps, in case they’re the wrong ones.

I feel like there are stages in many, many people’s childhoods when you don’t have one good friend. It can happen a lot in sixth and seventh grade because that’s when things are changing so quickly. It’s like a desperate dash for some kind of acceptable identity, and it can get ugly.

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