Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse - except August.
Katherine PatersonWe humans have had from time unknown the compulsion to name things and thus to be able to deal with them. The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it. And in ancient thought the name itself has power, so that to know someone's name is to have a certain power over him. And in some societies, as you know, there was a public name and a real or secret name, which would not be revealed to others.
Katherine PatersonWhat a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it create some semblance of order.
Katherine Patersonthe reason God made February short a few days was because he knew that by the time people came to the end of it they would die if they had to stand one more blasted day.
Katherine Paterson