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“If there was anything her short life had taught her, it was that a person must be tough. Otherwise, you were had.”

Katherine Paterson libro The Great Gilly Hopkins

Gilly Hopkins
The Great Gilly Hopkins (1978)

“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.”

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Katherine Paterson libro Bridge to Terabithia

Origine: Bridge to Terabithia

“Shh," he said. "Look."
"Where?"
"Can't you see'um?" he whispered. "All the Terabithians standing on tiptoe to see you."
"Me?"
"Shh, yes. There's a rumor going around that the beautiful girl arrving today might be the queen they've been waiting for.”

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Katherine Paterson libro Bridge to Terabithia

Origine: Bridge to Terabithia

“You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.”

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Katherine Paterson libro Bridge to Terabithia

Origine: Bridge to Terabithia

“Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.”

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“You have to believe it and you hate it. I don't have to and I think it's beautiful.”

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Katherine Paterson libro Bridge to Terabithia

Origine: Bridge to Terabithia

“It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.”

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Katherine Paterson libro Bridge to Terabithia

Origine: Bridge to Terabithia

“It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.”

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Katherine Paterson libro Bridge to Terabithia

Origine: Bridge to Terabithia

“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 but 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 libro Bridge to Terabithia

Origine: Bridge to Terabithia

“To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.”

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Katherine Paterson libro Jacob Have I Loved

Origine: Jacob Have I Loved

“You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like.”

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Katherine Paterson libro Bridge to Terabithia

Origine: Bridge to Terabithia

“Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed.”

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Katherine Paterson libro Bridge to Terabithia

Origine: Bridge to Terabithia

“When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn't want to forget… So I realize, that if it's hard for me, how much harder it must be for you.”

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Katherine Paterson libro Bridge to Terabithia

Origine: Bridge to Terabithia

“That was the rule that you never mixed up troubles at home with life at school. When parents were poor or ignorant or mean, or even just didn't believe in having a TV set, it was up to their kids to protect them.”

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Katherine Paterson libro Bridge to Terabithia

Origine: Bridge to Terabithia

“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 libro Bridge to Terabithia

Jesse Aarons
Bridge to Terabithia (1977)

“"Trotter its all wrong. Nothing turned out the way it was supposed to." "How do you mean supposed to? Life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough." [.. ] "If life is so bad, how come you're so happy?" "Did I say bad? I said it was tough. Nothing to make you happy like doing good on a tough job, now is there?"”

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Katherine Paterson libro The Great Gilly Hopkins

Gilly Hopkins and Trotter
The Great Gilly Hopkins (1978)

“He may not have been born with guts, but he didn't have to die without them.”

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Katherine Paterson libro Bridge to Terabithia

Origine: Bridge to Terabithia

“You gotta know someone cares about you, or you just give up.”

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Katherine Paterson libro The Same Stuff as Stars

Origine: The Same Stuff as Stars

“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?”

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Katherine Paterson libro Jacob Have I Loved

Origine: Jacob Have I Loved

“I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened.”

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Katherine Paterson Preacher's Boy

Origine: Preacher's Boy

“I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?”

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“Sitting in cold wet britches for an hour was no fun even in a magic kingdom.”

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Katherine Paterson libro Bridge to Terabithia

Origine: Bridge to Terabithia

“She just took off running to the old Perkins place. He couldn't help turning to watch. She ran as though it was her nature. It reminded him of the flight of wild ducks in the autumn. So smooth. The word "beautiful" came to his mind, but he shook it away and hurried up to his house.”

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Katherine Paterson libro Bridge to Terabithia

Jesse Aarons
Bridge to Terabithia (1977)

“He was angry, too, because it would soon be Christmas and he had nothing to give Leslie. It was not that she would expect something expensive; it was that he needed to give her something as much as he needed to eat when he was hungry. […] She wouldn't laugh at him no matter what he gave her. But for his own sake he had to give her something he could be proud of.”

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Katherine Paterson libro Bridge to Terabithia

Jesse Aarons
Bridge to Terabithia (1977)

“Even a prince may be a fool”

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Katherine Paterson libro Bridge to Terabithia

Leslie Burke
Bridge to Terabithia (1977)

“He felt there in the teachers' room that it was the beginning of a new season in his life, and he chose deliberately to make it so. He did not have to make any announcement to Leslie that he had changed his mind about her. She already knew it.”

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Katherine Paterson libro Bridge to Terabithia

Jesse Aarons
Bridge to Terabithia (1977)

“"Why don't we change our clothes and watch TV or something over at your house?" He felt like hugging her. "I'll make us some coffee," he said joyfully. "Yuk," she said smiling and began to run for the old Perkins place, that beautiful, graceful run of hers that neither mud nor water could defeat.”

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Katherine Paterson libro Bridge to Terabithia

Jesse Aarons and Leslie Burke (the last time they see each other)
Bridge to Terabithia (1977)

“When Leslie spoke, the words rolled out so regally, you knew she was a proper queen. He could hardly manage English, much less the poetic language of a king.”

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Katherine Paterson libro Bridge to Terabithia

Jess Aarons
Bridge to Terabithia (1977)

“So as the water nibbled away at our land, the war nibbled away at our souls.”

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“The movie does, I think, show very well the depth of the friendship and the power of imagination. Which were things I hoped that it would show.”

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