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All my dreams of leaving, but beneath them I was afraid to go. I had clung to them, to Rass, yes, even to my grandmother, afraid that if I loosened my fingers an iota, I would find myself once more cold and clean in a forgotten basket.
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life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough
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Katherine Paterson |
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Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.
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writing
books
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I have been mocked by beauty, too. But it was the beauty which cost me nothing that in the end turned upon me.
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beauty
mockery
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How could he explain it in a way Leslie would understand, how he yearned to reach out and capture the quivering life about him and how when he tried, it slipped past his fingertips, leaving a dry fossil upon the page?
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inspiration
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They ate a late lunch in the cafeteria. When she mentioned lunch, he realized with horror that he would need money, and he didn't know how to tell her that he hadn't brought any--didn't have any to bring, for that matter. But before he had time to figure anything out, she said, "Now I'm not going to have any argument about whose paying. I'm a liberated woman, Jess Aarons. When I invite a man out, I pay."
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Katherine Paterson |
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Everything comes in useful once in a hundred years.
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usefulness
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Katherine Paterson |
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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.
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Katherine Paterson |
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She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it too late to go back, she had left him stranded there - like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.
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Katherine Paterson |
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Jess drew the way some people drink whiskey. The peace would start at the top of his muddled brain and seep down through his tired and tensed-up body.
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Katherine Paterson |
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They were always nice to Jess when he went over, but then they would suddenly begin talking about French politics or string quartets (which he at first thought was a square box made out of string), or how to save the timber wolves or redwoods or singing whales, and he was scared to open his mouth and show once and for all how dumb he was.
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Katherine Paterson |
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Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts.
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Katherine Paterson |
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Drive them out utterly, so they may never return and prey upon our people.
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Katherine Paterson |
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He had promised Leslie that after Christmas he would stay home and fix up the house and plant his garden and listen to music and read books out loud and write only in his spare time.
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Katherine Paterson |
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Jess tried going to Terabithia alone, but it was no good. It needed Leslie to make the magic.
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Katherine Paterson |
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could be a magic country like Narnia, and the only way you can get in is by swinging across on this enchanted rope.
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Katherine Paterson |
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Jess wouldn't argue that, but he saw her as a beautiful wild creature who had been caught for a moment in that dirty old cage of a schoolhouse, perhaps by mistake.
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Katherine Paterson |
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Brenda's pouting voice broke in, "Your girl friend's dead, and Momma thought you was dead, too."
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Katherine Paterson |
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It was a three-dimensional nightmare version of some of his own drawings.
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Katherine Paterson |
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Don't tell me no one ever gave you a chance. You don't need anything given to you. You can make your own chances. But first you have to know what you're after, my dear.
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Katherine Paterson |
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It seemed to Gilly that everything in this world that you can't stand to wait one extra minute for is always late.
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Katherine Paterson |
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I was quite sure I was crazy, and it was amazing that as soon as I admitted it, I became quite calm. There was nothing I could do about it. I seemed relatively harmless. After
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Katherine Paterson |
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Bridge to Terabithia takes us by the hand and leads us into a room that we have never entered before. After we read this story, we cannot unknow what we now know. We are devastated, emotionally rent. But still: we feel held, loved, seen. Someone trusted us enough to tell us the truth; and because of that, the room is golden, brimful of light.
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Katherine Paterson |
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I ain't got no blood claim on you, and the Lord in Heaven knows I want you to have a good life with your own people. But"--her huge bass voice broke up into little squeaky pieces--"but it's killing me to see you go."
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Katherine Paterson |
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If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are works of art and who don't even know it, who wouldn't believe it if they were told. However hard work good writing may be, it is easier than good living.
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Katherine Paterson |
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Then Jess gave himself over to the numbness that was buzzing to be let out from a corner of his brain.
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Katherine Paterson |
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Everybody is somebobdy and I chanllenge anybody to deny it.
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everyone-in-the-world
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I was not happy in any way that would make sense to most people, but I was, for the first time in my life, deeply content with what life was giving me. Part
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Brenda burst in. "Do you know what some people do? They charge something and wear it, and then take it back and say it didn't fit or something. The stores don't give 'em no trouble." Her father turned in a kind of roar. "I never heard such a fool thing in my life. Didn't you hear your mother tell you to shut your mouth, girl!"
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Katherine Paterson |
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On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns Hewitt, took Mabel Cramm's bloomers and run them up the flagpole in front of the town hall. That was the beginning of all my troubles.
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Katherine Paterson |
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You never know ahead of time what something is really going to be like.
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Katherine Paterson |
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He nodded vigorously. Anything was better than promising to fight Janice Avery.
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Katherine Paterson |
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Leslie named their secret land "Terabithia," and she loaned Jess all of her books about Narnia, so he would know how things went in a magic kingdom--how the animals and the trees must be protected and how a ruler must behave."
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I had no study in those days, not even a desk or file or bookcase to call mine alone....It might have happened sooner [the writing of work worthy of publication] had I had a room of my own and fewer children, but somehow I doubt it. For as I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who took away my time and space are those who have given me something to say.
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Jess followed, still trying to figure out why two grown people and a smart girl like Leslie wanted to leave a comfortable life in the suburbs for a place like this. They watched the bus roar off.
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Leslie called them Judy and Bill, which bothered Jess more than he wanted it to. It was none of his business what Leslie called her parents. But he just couldn't get used to it.
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Katherine Paterson |
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Antes de que ocurra nunca sabes como va a ser una cosa realmente.
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Katherine Paterson |
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The basic task of education is the care and feeding of the imagination.
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imagination
education
educational-philosophy
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she had stood at the gate of her compound and told the Japanese soldiers there that if they tried to come in and get her girls, they would have to do it across her dead body. This
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Katherine Paterson |
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Even a prince may be a fool
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Katherine Paterson |
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Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied
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freedom
identity
humor
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Alli, en su lugar secreto, sus sentimientos hervian dentro de el como un guisado en la lumbre; algunos eran tristes por su soledad, pero tambien habia rastros de felicidad. Poder ser su unico amigo en el mundo como ella lo era para el, le llenaba de satisfaccion.
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Katherine Paterson |
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The conquering army had perpetrated untold atrocities. The Japanese had occupied my home and twice forced us to leave the land I loved.
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Katherine Paterson |
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The moral, of course, is that you must always try to see other people's Point of View before you criticize anybody. Histories are crammed full of unkind things, silly things, and untrue things--why? Because so often the people who write them will not try to see or feel any Point of View but their own...So mind that you always look out for the Point of View and help people to see yours, too, if you want them to understand you.
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