“Shh," he said. "Look."
"Where?"
"Can't you see'um?" he whispered. "All the Terabithians standing on tiptoe to see you."
"Me?"
"Shh, yes. There's a rumor going around that the beautiful girl arrving today might be the queen they've been waiting for.”

—  Katherine Paterson, book Bridge to Terabithia

Source: Bridge to Terabithia

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American children's writer born and mainly raised in China 1932

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