Katherine Paterson Mean Quotations

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.

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

We are trying to communicate that which lies in our deepest heart, which has no words, which can only be hinted at through the means of a story...

A good story is alive, ever changing and growing as it meets each listener or reader in a spirited and unique encounter, while the moralistic tale is not only dead on arrival, it's already been embalmed. It's safer that way. When a lively story goes dancing out to meet the imagination of a child, the teller loses control over meaning. The child gets to decide what the story means.