Margaret Haddix Quotes

Beware of wallflowers. They expect to have everything done for them.

I think I've always been waiting for things to happen.

We stay in the house so much because I am waiting for the telephone. I seem to be back in my teens, a period I thought I would never have to endure again: my life is spent hoping for things that only someone else can bring about.

I'm trying to let him know what I'm about to do. I'm hoping he can save me, even though I realize he can't.

I spent a lot of time waiting for things to happen to me, which is more or less as pathetic as it sounds.

There is nothing you can do about it but sit back and watch.

To wait idly is the worst of conditions.

I've heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there's a lot to be said for having really reached a bottom where you've run out of any more good ideas or plans for everybody else's behavior; or how to save and fix and rescue; or just get out of a huge mess, possibly of your own creation.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

Only a god can save us.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

There are no deliverers. They're all dead.

I cannot change anything, so I don't want to think about what I would have done.

People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.

When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything.

He seemed to be waiting for a miracle to save him from the depths his life had reached and take him to a land of dreams.

Finished, it's finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished. Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there's a heap, a little heap, the impossible heap. I can't be punished any more. I'll go now to my kitchen, ten feet by ten feet by ten feet, and wait for him to whistle me. Nice dimensions, nice proportions, I'll lean on the table, and look at the wall, and wait for him to whistle me.

But not me, baby, I've got you to save me.

Because I can't hit bottom, I can't be saved.

Some people prefer the passenger role, because it imposes no real pressure to decide or stand accountable for their life results.

Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.

Worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.

I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself.

At this moment, many people have stopped living. They do not become angry, nor cry out; they merely wait for time to pass. They did not accept the challenges of life, so life no longer challenges them