01c. 1964 ADThere ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.Kate DiCamillo / quote ↗
03c. 1964 ADYou can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.Kate DiCamillo / quote ↗
04c. 1964 ADIf you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.Kate DiCamillo / quote ↗
05c. 1964 ADReader, 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?Kate DiCamillo / quote ↗
07c. 1964 ADNothingwould beeasier withoutyou,because youare everything,all of it-sprinkles, quarks, giantdonuts, eggs sunny-side up-youare the ever-expandinguniverseto me.Kate DiCamillo / quote ↗
08c. 1964 ADThe world is dark, and light is precious.Come closer, dear reader.You must trust me.I am telling you a story.Kate DiCamillo / quote ↗
09c. 1964 ADOh, my goodness,” said Louisiana. “I’m just all filled up with feathers and regrets. And fears. I have a lot of fears.Kate DiCamillo / quote ↗
10c. 1964 ADMen and boys always want to go fight. They are always looking for a reason to go to war. It is the saddest thing. They have this abiding notion that war is fun. And no history lesson will convince them differently.Kate DiCamillo / quote ↗
12c. 1964 ADIf you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting everywhere. You just have to open your eyes and your heart.Kate DiCamillo / quote ↗
13c. 1964 ADNormally, Edward would have found intrusive, clingy behavior of this sort very annoying, but there was something about Sarah Ruth. He wanted to take care of her. He wanted to protect her. He wanted to do more for her. (page 135)Kate DiCamillo / quote ↗
14c. 1964 ADWe forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you that it can. I want to thank you because it did. - 2010 Indies Choice AwardKate DiCamillo / quote ↗
15c. 1964 ADDespereaux was reading the story out loud to himself. He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end...Kate DiCamillo / quote ↗
16c. 1964 ADThe sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him.Kate DiCamillo / quote ↗
17c. 1964 ADLike most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.Kate DiCamillo / quote ↗
18c. 1964 ADMagic is always impossible. It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That's why it is magic.Kate DiCamillo / quote ↗
19c. 1964 ADThere," she said. She rocked him back and forth. "There, you foolish, beautiful boy who wants to change the world. There, there. And who could keep from loving you? Who could keep from loving a boy so brave and true?Kate DiCamillo / quote ↗
21c. 1964 ADShe said the words, and then she had a strange moment of seeing them, hanging there over her head. "You're going to vacuum up that squiKate DiCamillo / quote ↗
22c. 1964 ADShe liked the way the words sounded. She imagined them floating above her in a comic-strip bubbleKate DiCamillo / quote ↗
23c. 1964 ADShe might be a natural-born cynic, but she knew the right word when she heard it.Kate DiCamillo / quote ↗
24c. 1964 ADThe words were good words, Ulysses felt, maybe even great words, but the list was very incomplete. He was just getting started. The words needed to be arranged, fussed with, put in the order of his heart.Kate DiCamillo / quote ↗
