I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.
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 PatersonIf you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.
Katherine PatersonSometimes you need to give people something that's for them, not just something that makes you feel good giving it.
Katherine PatersonOn Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns Hewitt, took Mabel Cramm's bloomers and run them up the flagpole in front of the town hall. That was the beginning of all my troubles.
Katherine Paterson