Mandarin ducks mate for life and will die of loneliness if separated from their chosen mate.
Katherine PatersonMy heart is heavy, she thought. Itโs not just a saying. It is what isโheavy, 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.
Katherine PatersonWe are trying to communicate that which lies in our deepest heart, which has no words, which can only be hinted at through the means of a story. And somehow, miraculously, a story that comes from deep in my heart calls from a reader that which is deepest in his or her heart, and together from our secret hidden selves we create a story that neither of us could have told alone.
Katherine Paterson