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640c26b Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. Kate DiCamillo
9d21865 There 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. letting-go love separating loving separation Kate DiCamillo
348d914 There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name. Kate DiCamillo
bac94e8 Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light. story light darkness stories Kate DiCamillo
f8483b3 There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman. Such was the fate of Chiaroscuro. His heart was broken. Picking up the spoon and placing it on his head, speaking of revenge, these things helped him to put his heart together again. But it was, alas, put together wrong. Kate DiCamillo
548ce18 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." darkness despereaux Kate DiCamillo
953ef6f The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story. Kate DiCamillo
964ebc0 Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform. Kate DiCamillo
8192068 Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. And spools of thread. Kate DiCamillo
85043c5 You must be filled with expectancy. You must be awash in hope. You must wonder who will love you, whom you will love next. Kate DiCamillo
9f6fa4d It is important that you say what you mean to say. Time is too short. You must speak the words that matter. Kate DiCamillo
51c5bd3 But, reader, there is no comfort in the word "farewell," even if you say it in French. "Farewell" is a word that,in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises absolutely nothing." good-bye Kate DiCamillo
b1cf8c5 Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Kate DiCamillo
ede4fe3 It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it. Kate DiCamillo
6382247 Once there was a princess who was very beautiful. She shone bright as the stars on a moonless night. But what difference did it make that she was beautiful? None. No difference." Why did it make no difference?" asked Abilene. Because," said Pellegrina, "She was a princess who loved no one and cared nothing for love, even though there were many who loved her." Kate DiCamillo
e0d8822 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. Kate DiCamillo
b73acfd 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) loss Kate DiCamillo
20c48a4 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? Kate DiCamillo
17111de 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." Kate DiCamillo
dab6c01 Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted. Kate DiCamillo
b4181c9 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. Kate DiCamillo
23840d8 Nothing would be easier without you, because you are everything, all of it- sprinkles, quarks, giant donuts, eggs sunny-side up- you are the ever-expanding universe to me. universe poetry Kate DiCamillo
3a505d2 You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter. Kate DiCamillo
ce6eba6 I have been loved, Edward told the stars. So? said the stars. What difference does that make when you are all alone now? Kate DiCamillo
0d348e9 How will the world change if we do not question it? Kate DiCamillo
404c03b Love is ridiculous. But love is also wonderful. And powerful. And Despereaux's love for the Princess Pea would prove, in time, to be all of these things: powerful, wonderful, and ridiculous. Kate DiCamillo
ab25d59 Look at me, he said to her. His arms and legs jerked. Look at me. You got your wish. I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me. The old woman turned and hobbled away. Come back, thought Edward. Fix me Kate DiCamillo
d6c8123 Despereaux looked at his father, at his grey-streaked fur and trembling whiskers and his front paws clasped together in front of his heart, and he felt suddenly as if his own heart would break in two. His father looked so small, so sad. "Forgive me," said Lester again. Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing. And a ridiculous thing, too. Isn't it ridiculous, after all, to think .. Kate DiCamillo
6a6898c 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." Kate DiCamillo
f8778c2 It's hard not to immediately fall in love witha dog who has a good sense of humor. Kate DiCamillo
14e8e4c 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
1e2a995 There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup. humor Kate DiCamillo
0a1c61a Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing. And a ridiculous thing, too. Kate DiCamillo
8042cf9 That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing. Kate DiCamillo
b480ab1 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? Kate DiCamillo
3aa1b5e 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?" love orphans children boys Kate DiCamillo
304a396 But answer me this: how can a story end happily if there is no love? kate-dicamillo Kate DiCamillo
520633e Someone will come for you, but first you must open your heart... edward-tulane old-doll tulane kate-dicamillo Kate DiCamillo
92727b0 It is a horrible, terrible thing, the worst thing, to watch somebody you love die right in front of you and not be able to do nothing about it. sadness Kate DiCamillo
74a33b8 I promise to always turn back toward you. Kate DiCamillo
dcd8802 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. Kate DiCamillo
53d13f5 You are down there alone, the stars seemed to say to him. And we are up here, in our constellations, together. Kate DiCamillo
dd81962 the story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty have a certain value, too, I suppose. Everything, as you well know (having lived in this world long enough to have figured out a thing or two for yourself), cannont always be sweetness and light. violence light despereaux Kate DiCamillo
184564d And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen. Kate DiCamillo
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