Quotes by : Rebecca Stead

What's the burn scale?

And when the veil lifts, we can see the world as it really is, just for those few seconds before it settles....

This is the world of pretend. We are artists and we are servants of the stage, and I take both jobs very....

We have lunch at ten-forty-five,” Colin said. A stupidly early lunch. At our school, the older you....

Didn't you ever have a father yourself? You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your....

I think that when you don't know, you should wait until you do.

[she used to say that] each of us has a veil between ourselves and the rest of the world – like a bride....

Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean. It's like how turning on a light....

Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.....

She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school.