Kate DiCamillo quotes - page 2

Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him. (Kate DiCamillo)
You must be filled with expectancy. You must be awash in hope. You must wonder who will love you, whom you will love next. View quote
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So many miracles have not yet happened. View quote
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We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it? View quote
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Edward knew what it was like to say over and over again the names of those you had left behind. He knew what it was like to miss someone. And so he listened. And in his listening, his heart opened wide and then wider still. (page 103) View quote
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Perhaps," said the man, "you would like to be lost with us. I have found it much more agreeable to be lost in the company of others. View quote
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You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter. View quote
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How will the world change if we do not question it? View quote
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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. View quote
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That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing. View quote
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Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken. (Kate DiCamillo)
Have you, in truth, ever seen something so heartbreakingly lovely? What are we to make of a world where stars shine bright in the midst of so much darkness and gloom? View quote
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There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup. View quote
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There," 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? View quote
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You are down there alone, the stars seemed to say to him. And we are up here, in our constellations, together. View quote
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I have been loved, Edward told the stars. So? said the stars. What difference does that make when you are all alone now? View quote
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Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. And spools of thread. View quote
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Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform. View quote
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This is the danger of loving: No matter how powerful you are, no matter how many kingdoms you rule, you cannot stop those you love from dying. View quote
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If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless. View quote
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It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it. (Kate DiCamillo)
And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen. View quote
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Pea was aware suddenly of how fragile her heart was, how much darkness was inside it, fighting, always, with the light. She did not like the rat. She would neverlike the rat, but she knew what she must do to save her own heart. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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