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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.

— Katherine Paterson The Spying Heart (1989)

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Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts.

Bridge to Terabithia (1977)

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

The Great Gilly Hopkins (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.

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.

Bridge to Terabithia (1977)

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Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
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William Wordsworth Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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