Kate DiCamillo: Thing

“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.”

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

“It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.”

“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.”

“Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing.
And a ridiculous thing, too.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.”

“That was the thing about tragedy. It was just sitting there, keeping you company, waiting. And you had absolutely no idea.”