Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.
Katherine Paterson...the long train ride was like traveling through limbo. You weren't anywhere when you were on a train, she decided. You weren't where you had been, and you weren't yet where you were going. You were nowhere. It might be beautiful outside the window-and it was, she had sense enough to realize that-but it wasn't anywhere to her, just a scene passing by that was framed by the train window. (p160)
Katherine PatersonTo fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.
Katherine PatersonWe're alike, Jess would tell himself, me and Miss Edmunds . . . We don't belong at Lark Creek, Julia and me.
Katherine Paterson