Kate DiCamillo: Trending quotes

“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.”

Source: The Tale of Despereaux

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

Source: The Tale of Despereaux

Kate DiCamillo book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Source: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

“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.”

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

Source: The Tale of Despereaux

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

Source: The Tale of Despereaux

“Don't we all live in our heads? Where else could we possibly exist? Our brainsthe universe.”

Source: The Magician's Elephant

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

Source: Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

“Other people’s tragedies should not be the subject of idle conversation.”

Kate DiCamillo book Because of Winn-Dixie

Source: Because of Winn-Dixie

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

“Men 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 book Because of Winn-Dixie

Source: Because of Winn-Dixie

“And hope is like love… a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.”

“Thinking about her was the same as the hole you keep on feeling with your tongue after you lose a tooth. Time after time, my mind kept going to that empty spot, the spot where I felt like she should be.”

Source: The Tale of Despereaux (2004)

Kate DiCamillo book Because of Winn-Dixie

Source: Because of Winn-Dixie

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

Kate DiCamillo book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Source: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

“What was it like… to have someone who knew you would always return and who welcomed you with open arms?”

“We 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 Award”

Source: The Magician's Elephant

“You are the ever-expanding universe to me”

“We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?”

Source: Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

“Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.”

Source: The Magician's Elephant

“Despereaux," she whispered.
And then she shouted it, "Despereaux!"
Reader, nothing is sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.
Nothing.”

Source: The Magician's Elephant