268 Quotes by Katherine Paterson

Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter,

Trouble can always be borne when it is shared.

I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.

Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations.

A dream without a plan is just a wish

I think, she began quietly, I think we want... not just bread for our bellies. We want more than only bread. We want food for our hearts, our souls. We want- how to say it? We want, you know- Puccini music.... we want for our beautiful children some beauty. She leaned over and kissed the curl on her finger. We want roses....

The last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything.

What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it create some semblance of order.

It wasn't so much that he minded telling Leslie that he was afraid to go; it was that he minded being afraid. It was as though he had been made with a great piece missing - one of May Belle's puzzles with this huge gap where somebody's eye should have been. Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts.