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“You have to believe it and you hate it. I don't have to and I think it's beautiful.”
― Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia

“It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.”
― Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia

“You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.”
― Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia

“Being a hero usually isn't much fun. It's terrifying, most of the time, right up until the point you make it out safe. It's being scared to do the right thing and doing it anyway.”
― Joshua C. Cohen, Leverage

“Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place

“Uncle had learned long ago that obeying a rule in fact but not in spirit was very hard on people who say we for I and who do not allow dogs on their premises.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place

“I prefer not to.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place

“Drawing is what you see of the world, truly see...And sometimes what you see is so deep in your head you're not even sure of what you're seeing. But when it's down there on paper, and you look at it, really look, you'll see the way things are...that's the world, isn't it? You have to keep looking to find the truth.”
― Patricia Reilly Giff, Pictures of Hollis Woods

“You've got to love yourself with all your short comings, and you've got to love the world no matter how bad it gets.”
― Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here

“You don't know which way a thing will come at you, but you need to welcome it with your whole heart which ever way it arrives.”
― Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here

“it's a complete rush to get what you've been hoping for - to get it so full and complete that it fills your senses. ”
― Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here

“The sad heart needs work to do.”
― Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here

“...if a child waited to speak until all the grown-ups settled down and gave her some room to say her piece, the most important things would never get said.”
― Katherine Hannigan, Ida B

“I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and filled myself up with the breeze from the valley. Then I let it out slow so it could get back to its travels, with a little bit of me added to it.”
― Katherine Hannigan, Ida B. . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World

“We don't own the earth. We are the earth's caretakers...we take care of it and all the things on it. And when we're done with it, it should be left better than we found it.”
― Katherine Hannigan, Ida B. . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World

“I was saying the right things, but not the really true things.”
― Katherine Hannigan, Ida B. . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World

“You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya—life—to me.”
― Jane Yolen, The Devil's Arithmetic

“We all have such stories. It is a brutal arithmetic. But I - I am alive. You are alive. As long as we breathe, we can see and hear. As long as we can remember, all those gone before are alive inside us.”
― Jane Yolen, The Devil's Arithmetic

“But as the scissors snip-snapped through her hair and the razor shaved the rest, she realized with a sudden awful panic that she could no longer recall anything from the past. I cannot remember, she whispered to herself. I cannot remember. She's been shorn of memory as brutally as she'd been shorn of her hair, without permission, without reason... Gone, all gone, she thought again wildly, no longer even sure what was gone, what she was mourning.”
― Jane Yolen, The Devil's Arithmetic

“Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.”
― Rodman Philbrick, Freak the Mighty

“Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain.”
― Rodman Philbrick, Freak the Mighty

“Remembering is a great invention of the mind.”
― Rodman Philbrick, Freak the Mighty

“I could tell you all the medical terminology,' She says. 'But what finally happened is his heart got to big for his body' ”
― Rodman Philbrick, Freak the Mighty

“Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. When I was little my father would pull me into his lap and reach for the snow globe. He would turn it over, letting all the snow collect on the top, then quickly invert it. The two of us watched the snow fall gently around the penguin. The penguin was alone in there, I thought, and I worried for him. When I told my father this, he said, "Don't worry, Susie; he has a nice life. He's trapped in a perfect world.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“This is just a temporary hell, not a permanent one”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“After all, what is suffering but an awareness of suffering?”
― Nancy Farmer, The House of the Scorpion

“Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel. ”
― Lois Lowry, Number the Stars

“She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.”
― Lois Lowry, Number the Stars