“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, book The Tale of Despereaux

Source: The Tale of Despereaux

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American children's writer 1964

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