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Win was flabbergasted when he heard me say to the dog: We don't put our paws on the table while folks are eating, Manch. — Katherine Paterson

Fate's book, but my italics. — Don Paterson

By all means read the Puritans, they are worth more than all the modern stuff put together. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You have to believe it and you hate it. I don't have to and I think it's beautiful. — Katherine Paterson

The less oil the world uses, the less important the region that has so much of it becomes. — Michael Mandelbaum

When I'm invisible I don't have to feel anything. The pain and grief and fear goes away. I go numb and quiet. — Cecily Anne Paterson

We turn from the light to see. — Don Paterson

Falling and flying are near identical sensations, in all but one final detail. — Don Paterson

Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time. — Don Paterson

No fury more righteous than that of a sinner accused of the wrong sin. — Don Paterson

I don't care. I don't care". He was crying now, crying so hard he could barely breathe. — Katherine Paterson

You are sure that you are right but you don't want everyone to think as you do. There is no truth without fools. — Don DeLillo

We're alike, Jess would tell himself, me and Miss Edmunds ... We don't belong at Lark Creek, Julia and me. — Katherine Paterson

Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards. — Salman Rushdie

There are few things as unsettling as a lack of control in an unfamiliar situation. — Becky Chambers

You don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given. — Katherine Paterson

Anything that elicits an immediate nod of recognition has only reconfirmed a prejudice. — Don Paterson

The aphorism is already a shadow of itself. — Don Paterson

Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place? — Stendhal

After a long period of reflection, he decided that he was in fact right yet again. — Don Paterson

We could easily have evolved eyelids thick enough to keep out the light, but we still need to see the shadows fall across them. We're not yet safe. — Don Paterson

It takes the best part of a lifetime to find out what you don't want. — Isabel Paterson

Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read. — Don Paterson

Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity. — Isabel Paterson

Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed. — Katherine Paterson

Dying people don't need medicine, the ones who remain do. — Jose Rizal

Dammit, Trotter. Don't try to make a stinking Christian out of me. — Katherine Paterson

It's three interdependent, interconnected, and fluidly contingent disciplines: Perception, Action, and the Will. — Ryan Holiday

I don't know that there is too far, actually. I think there's only too bad. If it's bad you've gone too far. — Kenneth Branagh

I'm a hard worker. I'm a people person. — Bobby Schilling

The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself ... Poetry is therefore primarily a commemorative act. — Don Paterson

Imagine your shadow burning off the page / As the dear world and the dead word disengage — Don Paterson