268 Quotes by Katherine Paterson

Win was flabbergasted when he heard me say to the dog: “We don’t put our paws on the table while folks are eating, Manch.

I stood there and watched thirty-five children disappear in almost as many different directions and was suddenly horrified by what I’d done. What if someone got lost or hurt? Suppose they didn’t come back on time? What would I do then?

We do have trouble dealing with death, but it’s the one thing that is guaranteed we are all going to have to do, and we are going to have to face it many times before we die ourselves.

There are no guarantees of success, much less of quality. If you don’t dare to be a mediocre writer, you’ll never be a writer at all.

Intoxicated as he was with the heavens, he could not imagine needing anything on earth.

Bridge to Terabithia takes us by the hand and leads us into a room that we have never entered before. After we read this story, we cannot unknow what we now know. We are devastated, emotionally rent. But still: we feel held, loved, seen. Someone trusted us enough to tell us the truth; and because of that, the room is golden, brimful of light.

Now it was time for him to move out. She wasn’t there, so he must go for both of them. It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.

Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse – except August.

Brenda’s pouting voice broke in, “Your girl friend’s dead, and Momma thought you was dead, too.