“Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed.”
Source: Bridge to Terabithia
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Famous Katherine Paterson Quotes
“Impressed. Lord. He had nearly drowned.”
Source: Bridge to Terabithia
Source: Bridge to Terabithia
Source: Bridge to Terabithia
“Sitting in cold wet britches for an hour was no fun even in a magic kingdom.”
Source: Bridge to Terabithia
Source: The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children
Source: Bridge to Terabithia
“He may not have been born with guts, but he didn't have to die without them.”
Source: Bridge to Terabithia
“It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.”
Source: Bridge to Terabithia
“You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.”
Source: Bridge to Terabithia
“You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like.”
Source: Bridge to Terabithia
“A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.”
“The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.”
Source: The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children
Source: Read for Your Life #18
“It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness.”
Source: Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children
Source: The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children
“Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.”
“It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.”
Source: Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children
“Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations.”
Source: Bread and Roses, Too
“The last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything.”
Source: Bridge to Terabithia
Source: Bridge to Terabithia