Quotes About Despereaux

#1. I don't understand,' said Despereaux.
'And you will not understand until you lose what you love ...

Kate DiCamillo

#2. Why would you save me?
Because you, mouse, can tell Gregory a story. Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.'
- A Tale of Despereaux, Kate Dicamillo - P. 81

Kate DiCamillo

#3. Furlough?" He said.
"What?" said the first hood irritably.
Despereaux shuddered. His own brother was delivering him to the dungeon. His heart stopped beating and shrunk to a small, cold, disbelieving pebble.

Kate DiCamillo

#4. Despereaux turned. He looked up and into the Head Mouse's eyes. They were dark eyes, deep and sad and frightened. And as Despereaux looked into them, his heart thudded once, twice.

Kate DiCamillo

#5. The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him.

Kate DiCamillo

#6. Despereaux marveled at his own bravery.
He admired his own defiance.
And then, reader, he fainted.

Kate DiCamillo

#7. Despereaux thought that he might faint with the pleasure of someone referring to his ears as small and lovely. He laid his tail against the Pea's wrist to steady himself and he felt the princess's pulse, the pounding of her heart, and his own heart immediately took up the rhythm of hers.

Kate DiCamillo

#8. There is somebody who loves me," said Despereaux. "And I love her and that is the only thing that matters to me.

Kate DiCamillo

#9. 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.

Kate DiCamillo

#10. 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.

Kate DiCamillo

#11. I will be brave, thought Despereaux. I will try to be brave like a knight in shining armour. I will be brave for the Princess Pea.

Kate DiCamillo

#12. Reader, do you believe that there is such a thing as happily ever after? Or, like Despereaux, have you, too, begun to question the possibility of happy endings?

Kate DiCamillo

#13. Despereaux was reading the story out loud to himself. He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end ...

Kate DiCamillo

#14. You, friend, are on a quest." "I don't know what that is," said Despereaux. "You don't have to know. You just have to feel compelled to do the thing, the impossible, important task at hand.

Kate DiCamillo

#15. Ultimate influence is the ability to get the results you want from others while helping them feel genuinely good about themselves.

Bob Burg

#16. That is the nature of endings, it seems. They never end. When all the missing pieces of your life are found, put together with glue of memory and reason, there are more pieces to be found.

Amy Tan

#17. The story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty have a certain value, too, I suppose. Everything, as you well know (having lived in this world long enough to have figured out a thing or two for yourself), cannont always be sweetness and light.

Kate DiCamillo

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

Kate DiCamillo

#19. 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

#20. I take every opportunity to tell people how happy my mother is to be dead.

SARK

#21. I love to read,
but I can't stand books like that.
And I flat out refuse
to have one of those lives
that I wouldn't even want
to read about."
"But at least I'm numb
as if my heart's been Novocained.

Sonya Sones

#22. Was it possible that people who wanted to die developed the ability to look slightly transparent around the edges, a hologram of themselves, empty of spirit or desire? Honor had to stop herself from passing her hand across the woman's body to see if she had substance. from: Honor's Ghost

Voula Grand

#23. The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

Pierre Schaeffer

#24. When I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how I'm going to make it work!

Bela Fleck

#25. If there was a simple formula for success and it was easy to follow, everyone would be doing it.

Edward Johnson, III

#26. I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all!

Chanel Iman

#27. Know when and how to get out of the way.

Bob Sutton

#28. I suppose middle-aged love is interesting for middle-aged people.

Phyllis Logan

#29. When you realize that you are an eternal being, you will laugh at things that used to give you anxiety attacks.

Stephen Baxter

#30. This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.

Kate DiCamillo

#31. John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play third base and how to protect myself. John taught me more baseball than anyone else.

Judy Johnson

#32. Nothing is true and everything is permitted.

Hassan-i Sabbah

#33. Nobody ought to be too old to improve: I should be sorry if I was; and I flatter myself I have already improved considerably by my travels. First, I can swallow gruel soup, egg soup, and all manner of soups, without making faces much. Secondly, I can pretty well live without tea ...

Anna Letitia Barbauld

#34. Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl?
The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no one.

Kate DiCamillo

#35. Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.

Kate DiCamillo