“Everything, as you well know… cannot always be sweetness and light.”
Źródło: The Tale of Despereaux
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo – amerykańska autorka powieści dla dzieci. Specjalizuje się w powieściach, których głównymi bohaterami są zwierzęta. W Polsce zostały wydane dwie jej książki Dzięki tobie Winn-Dixie i Opowieść o Despero Wikipedia
“Everything, as you well know… cannot always be sweetness and light.”
Źródło: The Tale of Despereaux
Źródło: The Tale of Despereaux (2004)
Kontekst: Despereaux looked down at the book, and something remarkable happened. The marks on the pages, the "squiggles" as Merlot referred to them, arranged themselves into shapes. The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time
Źródło: Flora & Ulysses (2013), Chapter Four: A Surprisingly Helpful Cynic, p. 12
Źródło: Flora & Ulysses (2013), Chapter Two: The Mind of a Squirrel, p. 10
Źródło: Flora & Ulysses (2013), Chapter Eight: Helpful Information, p. 20
“Anything could happen. Together, she and Ulysses could change the world. Or something.”
Źródło: Flora & Ulysses (2013), Chapter Twelve: The Forces of Evil, p. 39
“Despereaux did not know it, but he would need, very soon, to be brave himself.”
The Tale of Despereaux (2004)
Źródło: Flora & Ulysses (2013), Chapter One: A Natural-Born Cynic, p. 7