I have a choice. Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix Copy Quote More from Margaret Peterson Haddix “A thousand times today I've started to open my mouth, started to squeak out, "C…” “That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered…” “There is nothing more valuable than the printed word.” “Why didn't you tell me that evil could be so lighthearted?”