Many people are angry when they make a mistake, but very few people have the sense to be sorry.
Katherine PatersonWhat a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it create some semblance of order.
Katherine Paterson...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want and people think that you are working.
Katherine PatersonIt wasn't so much that he minded telling Leslie that he was afraid to go; it was that he minded being afraid. It was as though he had been made with a great piece missing - one of May Belle's puzzles with this huge gap where somebody's eye should have been. Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts.
Katherine Paterson