He may not have been born with guts, but he didn't have to die without them.
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.
Gee, I’m really glad I came.Jess turned to Leslie in unbelief.It was better than a movie.You’re kidding.No, I’m not. And she wasn’t. He could tell by her face. That whole Jesus thing is really interes...
Everybody is somebobdy and I chanllenge anybody to deny it.
Even a prince may be a fool
Are you tired, Mary? I asked. She raised her weary gaze to me. My socks are tired, she said. And my shoes won’t even walk. To this day whenever in our family we want to express complete exhaustion, we...
Was appalled that I was heading across the world for four years, asked me: How could you do this to your mother? Well, I answered, she did it to her mother. But when my parents went to China it was di...
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
Daredevil nature as a young man. When I read what William Roth had written, I sighed. So that was where my own two boys had gotten the trait that was turning their mother’s hair gray.
All my ancestors were from the South and some even fought and died for the losing side. Perhaps that’s why I was long resigned to my failure to publish.
A frightening number of whom had IQ scores in the low 70s? I stopped reading and just stuck the records out of sight in a bottom drawer of my desk, and never thought of them again until the end of the...
You never know ahead of time what something is really going to be like.
What is man—and of course the writer means all of us puny little insignificant creatures—what is a mere human being that God who made the immense universe should ever notice?' She chuckled. 'The sky d...
We must have received our share of startled looks from the crew and other passengers—this seven-member family emerging from their third-class lower deck and climbing into a waiting chauffeur-driven li...
We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.
Thinking about myself as a crazy, independent old woman made me feel almost happy.
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...
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 bri...
The idea of living in the same house for all your childhood and having the same knot of devoted friends seemed magical to me, who had lived in thirteen different places by the time I was thirteen.
The 40th anniversary edition of the classic Newbery Medal-winning title by beloved author Katherine Paterson, with brand-new bonus materials including an author's note by Katherine herself and a forew...