Kate DiCamillo Short Quotes

25 Sourced Quotes

View all Kate DiCamillo Quotes
Life was so short; so many beautiful things slipped away.

Kate DiCamillo
The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.

Kate DiCamillo
And hope is like love... a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.

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

Kate DiCamillo
Allow me to congratulate you on your very astute powers of observation.

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

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

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

Kate DiCamillo
Despereaux did not know it, but he would need, very soon, to be brave himself.

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

Kate DiCamillo
Fairy tales don't tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!

Kate DiCamillo
If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.

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

Kate DiCamillo
Anything could happen. Together, she and Ulysses could change the world. Or something.

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

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

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

Kate DiCamillo
But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.

Kate DiCamillo
There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.

Kate DiCamillo
Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.

Kate DiCamillo
Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.

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

Kate DiCamillo
No one cared what she wanted. No one had ever cared. And perhaps, worst of all, no one ever would care.

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

Kate DiCamillo
It is important that you say what you mean to say. Time is too short. You must speak the words that matter.

Kate DiCamillo
Reader, nothing is sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name. Nothing.

Kate DiCamillo
Poetry. He liked the word — its smallness, its density, the way it rose up at the end as if it had wings.

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

Kate DiCamillo
All of God's creatures have names, every last one of them. Of that I am sure: of that I have no doubt at all.

Kate DiCamillo
When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.

Kate DiCamillo