Mary E. Pearson
Mary E. Pearson
Mary E. Pearsonis an American children's writer best known for young-adult fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth14 August 1955
CountryUnited States of America
alter bit cling course idealism lives teens time
Teens are passionate, questioning, curious, have a bit of the idealism I still cling to, and they're making decisions for the first time that can alter the course of their lives - and sometimes, the course of the world.
gritty high magical might science
I am undependable. You might get gritty contemporary with one book, science fiction, magical realism, or high fantasy with another.
want hundred chips
I don't want five hundred billion neural chips. I want guts.
father time-heals heal
Father says it will come in time. “Time heals,” he says. I don’t tell him that I don’t know what time is.
grandma grandmother law
I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.
sparrows weight wonder
I wonder at the weight of a Sparrow.
who-i-am
Tell me who I am. (29)
science two-sides coins
Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't know they are connected.
details forgotten
...and time becomes a forgotten detail.
years want remember
Picture yourself five years from now. Where do you want to be? Remember that. Every day. That's how you'll get there.
wings different kind
There are all kinds of friends you make in life... But there's something different about someone who spreads their wings with you.
success hard-work effort
Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.
father technology thinking
How can you be sure?" "I'm a doctor, Jenna. And a scientist." "Does that make you an authority on everything? What about a soul, Father? When you were so busy implanting all your neural chips, did you think about that? Did you snip my soul from my old body, too? Where did you put it? Show me! Where? Where in all this groundbreaking technology did you insert my soul?
differences who-we-are details
Are the details of our lives who we are, or is it owning those details that makes the difference?