“Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits.”

—  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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