If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.
Katherine PatersonRead
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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What this quote means
Reading enriches life and can lead to personal freedom and transformation.
Katherine Paterson's quote suggests that reading is not merely an activity but a powerful gateway to personal freedom and profound understanding. By engaging with books, one can unlock the secrets of knowledge and experience transformative changes in life, much like tending to a garden that flourishes with care and attention.
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ReadingFreedomTransformationKnowledgeLife
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about the importance of education, you could say, 'As Katherine Paterson wisely noted, reading can be a road to freedom, enabling us to transform our lives.'
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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.
Katherine PatersonRead
Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We need not only our public libraries to be funded properly and staffed properly, but our school libraries. Many children can't get to a public library, and the only library they have is a school library.
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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. And somehow, miraculously, a story that comes from deep in my heart calls from a reader that which is deepest in his or her heart, and together from our secret hidden selves we create a story that neither of us could have told alone.
Katherine PatersonRead
The challenge for those of us who care about our faith and about a hurting world is to tell stories which will carry the words of grace and hope in their bones and sinews and not wear them like fancy dress.
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