Death Quote by Katherine Paterson — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“What I have come to believe is that joy is the twin sister of gratitude. I am most joyful when I am most grateful.”

“Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.”

“Awareness of mortality exerts a unique power to focus the mind and heart on essentials.”

“Indeed, analyst Robert Bak calls orgasm "the perfect promise between love and death," the means by which we repatriate separation of mother and child through the momentary extinction of the self. It is true that few of us consciously climb into a lover's bed in the hope of finding our mommy between the sheets. But the sexual loss of our separateness (which may scare people so badly they cannot have orgasm) brings us pleasure, in part, because it unconsciously repeats our first connection.”

“Feel completely unable to do anything. Try to picture your life in five years. It really seems like you will be dead.”

“She had always found villains more exciting than heroes. They had ambition, passion. They made the stories happen. Villains didn't fear death. No, they wrapped themselves in death like suits of armor! As she inhaled the school's graveyard smell, Agatha felt her blood rush. For like all villains, death didn't scare her. It made her feel alive.”