Katherine PatersonSitting in cold wet britches for an hour was no fun even in a magic kingdom. ✨ Katherine Paterson (1995). Bridge to Terabithia, Hippo Bks373Reading
Katherine PatersonTo fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another. ✨ Katherine Paterson (2009). Jacob Have I Loved, Scholastic Incorporated352Love
Katherine PatersonSometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits. ✨ Katherine Paterson (2001). The Invisibl… ▶341LifeReadingTime
Katherine PatersonA great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.364LifeReading
Katherine PatersonIt is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.375Reading
Katherine PatersonAs I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who have taken away my time are those who have given me something to say. ✨ Katherine Paterson (1981).… ▶321ReadingReflectionTime
Katherine PatersonWe all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.355Humanity
Katherine PatersonWhat a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it create some semblance of order. ✨ Katherine Paterson (1981). Gates of excellence: on reading and wr… ▶377Reading
Katherine PatersonThus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility. ✨ Katherine Paterson (2001). The Invisible … ▶378Reading
Katherine PatersonIt is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations- something that will help them make… ▶367HumanityReading
Katherine PatersonEverybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed. ✨ Katherine Paterson (1995). Bridge to Terabithia, Hippo Bks335Time
Katherine Paterson...I just gave up trying to be a Christian... Let's face it, I ain't got the knack for holiness. Besides, I didn't have the slightest little desire to join the likes of Reverend P… ▶369HopeHumanityThought
Katherine PatersonShh he said. Look. Where? Can't you see'um? he whispered. All the Terabithians standing on tiptoe to see you. Me? Shh, yes. There's a rumor going around that the beautiful girl ar… ▶336Reading
Katherine PatersonWhen my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn't want to forget. [...] So I realize, that if it's hard for me, how mu… ▶314DeathHumanitySadness
Katherine PatersonTrouble can always be borne when it is shared.281Humor
Katherine PatersonI love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?348Love
Katherine PatersonReading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.337LifeReading
Katherine PatersonHope ... is not a feeling; it is something you do.327Hope
Katherine PatersonPeace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections.327LoveThought
Katherine PatersonYou think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't. ✨ Katherine Paterson (1995). Bridge to Terabithia, Hippo Bks305DeathSadnessThought
Katherine PatersonThere are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid. ✨ Katherine Paterson (2011). Read for Your Life #18, p.2, Houghton Miffl… ▶318LifeReading
Katherine PatersonWe're alike, Jess would tell himself, me and Miss Edmunds . . . We don't belong at Lark Creek, Julia and me. ✨ Katherine Paterson (2009). Bridge to Terabithia, p.30, Harper … ▶307Death
Katherine PatersonThat was the rule that you never mixed up troubles at home with life at school. When parents were poor or ignorant or mean, or even just didn't believe in having a TV set, it was … ▶329Life
Katherine PatersonImpressed. Lord. He had nearly drowned. ✨ Katherine Paterson (1995). Bridge to Terabithia, Hippo Bks296Politics
Katherine PatersonThe challenge for those of us who care about our faith and about a hurting world is to tell stories which will carry the words of grace and hope in their bones and sinews and not … ▶297Hope
Katherine PatersonHe may not have been born with guts, but he didn't have to die without them. ✨ Katherine Paterson (1995). Bridge to Terabithia, Hippo Bks242Death
Katherine Paterson...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child. ✨ Katherine Paterson (2011). Read for Your Life #18, p.22, Houg… ▶286LifeReading
Katherine PatersonIt was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength. ✨ Katherine Paterson (1995). Bridge to Terabithia, Hippo Bk… ▶309Hope
Katherine Paterson...the long train ride was like traveling through limbo. You weren't anywhere when you were on a train, she decided. You weren't where you had been, and you weren't yet where you … ▶276Truth
Katherine PatersonMiss Edmunds was one of his secrets. He was in love with her. Not the kind of silly stuff Ellie and Brenda giggled about on the telephone. This was too real and too deep to talk a… ▶211LoveThought
