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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

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government. — Isabel Paterson

Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied. — Katherine Paterson

What I have come to believe is that joy is the twin sister of gratitude. I am most joyful when I am most grateful. — Katherine Paterson

Jess drew the way some people drink whiskey. — Katherine Paterson

It's such a thrill when an adult comes up to me and says, 'I read your book as a child and really loved it.' That's a tremendous compliment. — Katherine Paterson

She wasn't scared of going deep, deep down in a world of no air and little light — Katherine Paterson

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another. — Katherine Paterson

What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it create some semblance of order. — Katherine Paterson

Those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child. — Katherine Paterson

My writing comes from ideas that make a sound in my heart. — Katherine Paterson

Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations. — Katherine Paterson

The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing. — William Paterson

It's not so hard to become the best painter in Canada ... The rest just quits! — Paterson Ewen

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

It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you. — Katherine Paterson

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography,
but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility. — Katherine Paterson

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven? — Katherine Paterson

I'm drowning my brother drowning. — Eva Paterson

Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits. — Katherine Paterson

I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul. — Katherine Paterson

Leslie was more than his friend. She was his other, more exciting self - his way to Terabithia and all the worlds beyond. — Katherine Paterson

I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they read. — Katherine Paterson

Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life. — Katherine Paterson

Many people are angry when they make a mistake, but very few people have the sense to be sorry. — Katherine Paterson

He lived long enough to give the chaplain his name - John Goetchius - but died before he could tell the kind man where his home was. — Katherine Paterson

A story is open-ended. A story invites you into it to make your own meaning. — Katherine Paterson

soldiers on the banks of the canal, they looked carefully to see whether they were Japanese or Chinese so they'd know which pass to pull out. — Katherine 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

One genius is about all a house will hold. — Isabel Paterson

Books like friends should be few and well-chosen. — Samuel Paterson

Just close your eyes and keep your mind wide open — Katherine Paterson

You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like. — Katherine Paterson

I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing. — Katherine Paterson

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

Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections. — Katherine Paterson

Hope ... is not a feeling; it is something you do. — Katherine Paterson

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly. — Isabel Paterson

If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish. — Isabel Paterson

February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down. — Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place. — Katherine Paterson

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

I love revisions ... We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest. — Katherine Paterson

You're the proverbial diamond in the rough", she'd said to him once, touching his nose lightly with the tip of her electrifying finger. — Katherine Paterson

Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure. — Isabel Paterson

An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea. — Isabel Paterson

An army is a diversion of energy from the productive life of a nation. — Isabel Paterson

He could usually get outdoors without waking Momma or Ellie or Brenda or Joyce Ann. — Katherine Paterson

The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility. — Isabel Paterson

Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation. — Owen Paterson

Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily. — Isabel Paterson

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.' — Katherine Paterson

If it has a use it isn't art. — Paterson Ewen

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

Could be a magic country like Narnia, and the only way you can get in is by swinging across on this enchanted rope. — Katherine Paterson

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

Growing up in Paterson wasn't the easiest thing. — Victor Cruz

Poverty can be brought about by law; it cannot be forbidden by law. — Isabel Paterson

Someday, when he was good enough, he would ask her to write them in a book and let him do all the pictures. — Katherine Paterson

Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not. — Katherine Paterson

St. Faith's, as she called her compound, was financed entirely by donations, some from friends abroad and some from admiring Chinese benefactors. — Katherine Paterson

Jess's feelings about Leslie's father poked up like a canker sore. You keep biting it, and it gets bigger and worse instead of better. — Katherine Paterson

The chef who cooks without a song on his lips cannot hope to infuse the right carefree improvisatory note into his art. — James Hamilton-Paterson

Pray state, this day, on one side of a sheet of paper, how the Royal navy is being adapted to meet the conditions of modern warfare. — Michael Paterson

Life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough — Katherine Paterson

John softened, and many years later he said to me, "You know, if we were ever to divorce, I get the cat." There is a — Katherine Paterson

He nodded vigorously. Anything was better than promising to fight Janice Avery. — Katherine Paterson

It was a three-dimensional nightmare version of some of his own drawings. — Katherine Paterson

Lord, let me heed the angels you put in my path. — Katherine Paterson

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

Our lives are lived between madness and secrets ... Our secrets make us who we are. - Derek Quinn — G.J. Paterson

The conquering army had perpetrated untold atrocities. The Japanese had occupied my home and twice forced us to leave the land I loved. — Katherine Paterson

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

If you could hold your nose to avoid a stink, or close your eyes to cut out a sight, why not shut off your brain to avoid a thought? — Katherine Paterson

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

I realize, of course, that I wasn't born knowing how to read. I just can't imagine a time when I didn't know how. — Katherine Paterson

Government should be a model of inclusion. — David Paterson

Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse - except August. — Katherine Paterson

The great truth is that women actually like men, and men can never believe it. — Isabel Paterson

I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream? — Katherine Paterson

I just can't get the poetry of the trees," he said. — Katherine Paterson

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

So we children must be thankful to the imperious Dr. Young for making it possible for our parents to meet and our subsequent births. — Katherine Paterson

Boys are confusing. Best friends, on the other hand are totally, completely reliable. — Cecily Anne 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

It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness. — Katherine Paterson

Trouble can always be borne when it is shared. — Katherine Paterson

It's just a book and a book can't leave me. A book can't decide who it wants to be with. — Cecily Anne Paterson

But he was long-legged for a ten-year-old, — Katherine Paterson

Sitting in cold wet britches for an hour was no fun even in a magic kingdom. — Katherine Paterson

Everybody is somebobdy and I chanllenge anybody to deny it. — Katherine Paterson

a dream without a plan is just a wish — Katherine Paterson

Go into relationships with a positive expectation and looking for God's glory in others. — Kevin Paterson

I'm scared of being seen. I'm scared of doing anything. I'm scared of losing another person who loves me. I'd rather just drift. — Cecily Anne Paterson

Mandarin ducks mate for life and will die of loneliness if separated from their chosen mate. — Katherine Paterson

Youth is a mortal wound. — Katherine Paterson

Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there. — Isabel Paterson

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

Impressed. Lord. He had nearly drowned. — Katherine Paterson

A library is a feast to which we are all invited. — Katherine Paterson