Kate DiCamillo Quotes

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I will be brave, thought Despereaux. I will try to be brave like a knight in shining armour. I will be brave for the Princess Pea.

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Take this squirrel, for instance. Ulysses. Do I believe he can type poetry? Sure, I do believe it. There is much more beauty in the world if I believe such a thing is possible.

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Life was so short; so many beautiful things slipped away.

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When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.

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If the world held magic powerful enough to make the elephant appear, then there must exist, too, magic in equal measure, magic powerful enough to undo what had been done.

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This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.

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There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by it.

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That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.

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Do you think everybody misses somebody? Like I miss my mama? Mmmm-hmmm, said Gloria. She closed her eyes. I believe, sometimes, that the whole world has an aching heart.

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There is no predicting what kind of sentences you might say, thought Flora. For instance, who would ever think you would shout, "You're going to vacuum up that squirrel!"?

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Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?

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They were always on the move.But in truth said bull we are all going nowhere

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We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other the best we can, even as you love us.

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It's hard not to immediately fall in love with a dog who has a good sense of humor.

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Magic is always impossible.... It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That is why it's magic.

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Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear reader. They are right.

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Everything, as you well know... cannot always be sweetness and light.

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You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.

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Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? Or is it (as the soldier said about happiness) something that you might just as well do, since, in the end, it really makes no difference to anyone but you?

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The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him.

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There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup.

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It seems to be that way with most things. No one to do the really disagreeable jobs except oneself.

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Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing. And a ridiculous thing, too.

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There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves is a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman.

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At least Lester had the decency to weep at his act of perfidy. Reader, do you know what 'perfidy' means? I have a feeling you do, based on the scene that unfolded here. But you should look up the word in your dictionary, just to be sure.

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He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together happily ever after.

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It occurred to her that nobody really knew what anybody else was upset about, and that seemed like a terrible thing.

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Say it, reader. Say the word "quest" out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full of wonder, so full of hope.

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Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.

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She was working to remind herself of who she was. She was working to remember that somewhere in another place entirely she was known and loved.

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