268 Quotes by Katherine Paterson

She ran as though it was her nature. It reminded him of the flight of wild ducks in the autumn.

My heart is heavy, she thought. It’s not just a saying. It is what is – heavy, a great stone lodged in my breast, pressing down my whole being. How can I even stand straight and look out upon the world? I am doubled over into myself and, for all the weight, find only emptiness.

Even a prince may be a fool.

Cows... weren’t like people, with feelings of lonesomeness and worrying about what might happen next. That was just people, wasn’t it? Sure, you could scare a cow, but wouldn’t they get over it as soon as you let them be? They didn’t stand around fretting about the next scare and the next and the next.

He had promised Leslie that after Christmas he would stay home and fix up the house and plant his garden and listen to music and read books out loud and write only in his spare time.

John softened, and many years later he said to me, “You know, if we were ever to divorce, I get the cat.” There is a.

Jess followed, still trying to figure out why two grown people and a smart girl like Leslie wanted to leave a comfortable life in the suburbs for a place like this. They watched the bus roar off.

I just can’t get the poetry of the trees,” he said.

You never know ahead of time what something’s really going to be like.