Quotes from book
The Tale of Despereaux
The Tale of Despereaux is a 2003 fantasy book written by Kate DiCamillo. The main plot follows the adventures of a mouse named Despereaux Tilling, as he sets out on his quest to rescue a beautiful human princess from the rats. The novel is divided into four "books" and ends with a coda. Each "book" tells the story from a different character's or group of characters' perspective, and finally all of them combined. The book won the 2004 Newbery Medal award.
Source: The Tale of Despereaux (2004)
Source: The Tale of Despereaux (2004)
Source: The Tale of Despereaux
“There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup.”
Source: The Tale of Despereaux
“And hope is like love… a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.”
Source: The Tale of Despereaux (2004)
Source: The Tale of Despereaux (2004)
“Everything, as you well know… cannot always be sweetness and light.”
Source: The Tale of Despereaux
Variant: Reader, nothing is sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name. Nothing.
Source: The Tale of Despereaux (2004)
Source: The Tale of Despereaux
Source: The Tale of Despereaux (2004)
Context: 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
