Katherine Paterson - Kind Quotes

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A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.

Katherine Paterson

Miss Edmunds was one of his secrets. He was in love with her. Not the kind of silly stuff Ellie and Brenda giggled about on the telephone. This was too real and too deep to talk about, even to think about very much.

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It was the kind of laughter that caught like briars in her chest and felt very much like pain.

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Jess believed, that she thought he was the best. It was not the kind of best that counted either at school or at home, but it was a genuine kind of best. He kept the knowledge of it buried inside himself like a pirate treasure. He was rich, very rich, but no one could know about it for now except his fellow outlaw, Julia Edmunds.

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