Trying to forget really doesn’t work. In fact, it’s pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried to forget anyway, and to ignore the fact that I was remembering you all the time.

—Rebecca Stead in When You Reach Me

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About Rebecca Stead

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Rebecca Stead (born January 16, 1968) is an American writer of fiction for children and teens. She won the American Newbery Medal in 2010, the oldest award in children's literature, for her second novel When You Reach Me.

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Well, it’s simple to love someone. But it’s hard to know when you need to say it out loud.

—Rebecca Stead in When You Reach Me

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The crime of loving is forgetting.

—Maurice Chevalier

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No matter how hard I try, the memories never fade. Forgetting is the worst because there’s a trigger for every memory.

—Calia Read in Breaking the Wrong

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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

—Laurence J. Peter

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To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.

—Henning Mankell in When the Snow Fell

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There’s things that happen in a person’s life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there’s no forgetting them.

—John Boyne in Mutiny on the Bounty

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