Quotes by : Katherine Paterson

Church always seemed the same. Jess could tune it out the same way he tuned out school, with his body....

Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people....

You're the proverbial diamond in the rough", she'd said to him once, touching his nose lightly with the....

Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed.

Hope ... is not a feeling it is something you do.

My heart is heavy, she thought. It’s not just a saying. It is what is—heavy, a great stone lodged....

All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off....

I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened.

life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough

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