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Katherine Paterson Quotes

Total quotes: 11
“Sometimes 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, Bridge to Terabithia
Tagged: Life
“You never know ahead of time what something’s really going to be like.”
— Leslie Burke, Bridge to Terabithia
Tagged: Thinking Ahead, Anticipation
“It was not that she expected anything expensive; it was that he needed to give her something as much as he needed to eat when he was hungry.”
— Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia
Tagged: Friendship, admiration
“Jess tried going to Terabithia alone, but it was no good. It needed Leslie to make the magic.”
— Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia
Tagged: Magic
“It 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, Bridge to Terabithia
Tagged: strength, Vision, beauty, caring
“Leslie was one of those people who sat quietly at her desk, never whispering or daydreaming or chewing gum, doing beautiful schoolwork, and yet her brain was so full of mischief that if the teacher could have once seen through that mask of perfection, she would have thrown her out in horror.”
— Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia
Tagged: Mischief
“She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there—like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.”
— Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia
Tagged: Old Self, Left Behind, Alone
“Just close your eyes and keep your mind wide open.”
— Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia
Tagged: Mind, open mind, Imagination
“When she mentioned lunch, he realized with horror that he would need money, and he didn’t know how to tell her that he hadn’t brought any—didn’t have any to bring, for that matter. But before he had time to figure anything out, she said, ‘Now I’m not going to have any argument about whose paying. I’m a liberated woman, Jess Aarons. When I invite a man out, I pay.’”
— Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia
Tagged: Lunch, Money, humor, Friendship
“He believed her because here in the shadowy light of the stronghold everything seemed possible. Between the two of them they owned the world and no enemy, Gary Fulcher, Wanda Kay Moore, Janice Avery, Jess's own fears and insufficiencies, nor any of the foes whom Leslie imagined attacking Terabithia, could ever really defeat them.”
— Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia
Tagged: Imagination, Magic, New World, Defeat
“He screamed something without words and flung the papers and paints into the dirty brown water… He watched them all disappear. Gradually his breath quieted, and his heart slowed from its wild pace. The ground was still muddy from the rains, but he sat down anyway. There was nowhere to go. Nowhere. Ever again. He put his head down on one knee. 'That was a damn fool thing to do.' His father sat down on the dirt beside him.

'I don't care. I don't care.' He was crying now, crying so hard he could barely breathe. His father pulled Jess over on his lap as if he were Joyce Ann. 'There, there,' he said, patting his head. 'Shhh. Shhh.'”
— Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia
Tagged: Death, Stuck, trapped
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