Rich people’s garbage was every year more complex, rife with hybrid materials, impurities, impostors. Planks that looked like wood were shot through with plastic. How was he to classify a loofah? The owners of the recycling plants demanded waste that was all one thing, pure.


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It wasn't so much that he minded telling Leslie that he was afraid to go; it was that he minded bein...
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He may not have been born with guts, but he didn't have to die without them.
KATHERINE PATERSON
Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed.
KATHERINE PATERSON
Shh," he said. "Look."
"Where?"
"Can't you see'um?" he whispered. "All the Terabithians st...
KATHERINE PATERSON
You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.
KATHERINE PATERSON
You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like.
KATHERINE PATERSON
It was Leslie who had taken him from the cow pasture into Terabithia and turned him into a king. He ...
KATHERINE PATERSON
Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direc...
KATHERINE PATERSON
She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then be...
KATHERINE PATERSON
It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision ...
KATHERINE PATERSON
You have to believe it and you hate it. I don't have to and I think it's beautiful.
KATHERINE PATERSON
Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character develo...
KATHERINE WATERSTON
Justin Bieber is a lovely chap.
KATHERINE RYAN
I'm a Cancerian, the typical crab with the tough outer shell and the soft bit in the middle. I d...
KATHERINE JENKINS
A lazy smile reached his lips. “The mere sight of me shirtless takes your mind there? Good to know...
KATHERINE MCINTYRE
I was lucky to develop in the U.K. because I find comedy - in addition to being caustic - it's q...
KATHERINE RYAN
I went to Catholic school. Do as you're told; don't ask questions and you will be illuminate...
KATHERINE HELMOND
Carol Burnett, who played Miss Hannigan in 'Annie', is as funny as it gets.
KATHERINE PARKINSON
I talk to my mom about six times a day, and we constantly email in between that. People say that I&#...
KATHERINE SCHWARZENEGGER
Tu vois, Jo, cette petite étoile au bout de la casserole, elle est comme toi, si tu l'enlèves, la ...
PANCOL KATHERINE
Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc...
KATHERINE DUNHAM
You just need a good plan and then a back-up plan!
KATHERINE KELLY
A lot of times on our show, 'Shadowhunters,' we have excuses to dawn some kind of sexy black...
KATHERINE MCNAMARA
Our attention spans have been reduced by the immediate gratification provided by smartphones and soc...
KATHERINE RYAN
A woman can be demure, lady-like and the most prim and proper character, and still have a toughness ...
KATHERINE MCNAMARA
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energ...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD
We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have...
KATHERINE DUNHAM
I felt most proud on the success of the Apollo mission.
KATHERINE JOHNSON
The things we do to our children - most of the evil in the world is not done with bad intentions but...
KATHERINE DUNN
I wasn't the best in my class at the Royal Academy. There was a really good soprano and baritone...
KATHERINE JENKINS
My dad was a third-generation printer and linotype operator, by all accounts a fabulous ballroom dan...
KATHERINE DUNN
Up until I was about 12, I was a ballet dancer and a basketball player.
KATHERINE MCNAMARA
I was reading a lot of European history, and I thought Attila the Hun had gotten a bad rap.
KATHERINE DUNN
I am a better mother for having something in my life and not just my children.
KATHERINE HEIGL
Being depressed is not a beautiful tragedy - it's hell and it's agony. Posting photos of som...
KATHERINE LANGFORD
Everybody is somebobdy and I chanllenge anybody to deny it.
KATHERINE PATERSON
Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.
KATHERINE MANSFIELD
Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD
I was certainly not a class clown; I confused and angered a lot of people with my sense of humor.
KATHERINE RYAN
Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression ...
KATHERINE DUNN
He stands there, facing the largest windows, touching the glass with the open palm of his hands, fee...
KATHERINE OWEN
My idol was Marilyn Monroe, who was a size 16, I think, and curvy in all the right places. I will ne...
KATHERINE JENKINS
My lip curls in a snide reflex whenever I hear that a new novel is written from the point of view of...
KATHERINE DUNN
She was always puzzled that people say that darkness falls. To her it seemed instead to rise, massin...
KATHERINE HOWE
Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different po...
KATHERINE HOWE
But remember. Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't real.
KATHERINE HOWE
I just try to stick to clean foods, anything grilled like salmon, chicken, fish, brown rice, and veg...
KATHERINE WEBB
The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explor...
KATHERINE DUNN
Don't be fooled. Looks can be deceptive. Like every working mother, I'm paddling away like a...
KATHERINE KELLY
Pageant makeup is so different from your day-to-day look. When you're on stage you really have t...
KATHERINE WEBB
I've always said that I count myself as a classical crossover artist. To be so, you have to have...
KATHERINE JENKINS
Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn...
KATHERINE JENKINS
They’d reached the point of no return, and she wanted to throw herself into the fire until the fla...
KATHERINE MCINTYRE