Top 100 Quotes About Kate Dicamillo
#1. 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
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#2. If memory serves me correctly, and it doesn't always, Kate [DiCamillo] and I met in the fall of 2001 at the former Figlio's restaurant in Minneapolis. We were laughing within a minute of meeting - always a good sign.
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#3. 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.
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#5. It's not even that I bump into things. It's more that things leap out of nowhere and bump into me
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#6. I have brought you half of my pancakes," said Gollie.
"And I have removed one of my outrageous socks," said Bink. "It's a compromise bonanza!
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#7. I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
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#8. Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.
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#9. I believe, sometimes, that the whole world has an aching heart. - Gloria Dump
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#10. Magic is always impossible ... It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That is why it's magic.
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#11. This is the danger of loving: No matter how powerful you are, no matter how many kingdoms you rule, you cannot stop those you love from dying.
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#12. Every morning for, I don't know how long, I came over to Alison's [McGhee] house and we sat in her office and wrote the stories "out loud" together. We yelled at each other and made each other laugh. It was a lot of fun.
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#13. I loved the preacher so much. I loved him because he loved Winn-Dixie. I loved him because he was going to forgive Winn-Dixie for being afraid. But most of all, I loved him for putting his arm around Winn-Dixie like that, like he was already trying to keep him safe.
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#14. Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.
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#15. It's different for everyone she said, you find out on your own. But in the meantime, you got to remember, you can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they're doing now.
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#16. And finally i prayed for the mouse-I prayed that he didn't get hurt when he went flying out the door of the open arms baptist church of naomi. I prayed that he landed on a nice patch of grass.
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#17. Everything, as you well know ... cannot always be sweetness and light.
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#19. When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.
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#20. That was the thing about tragedy. It was just sitting there, keeping you company, waiting. And you had absolutely no idea.
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#21. Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear reader. They are right.
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#22. 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.
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#24. The three of them walked through the woods in silence. Sistine and Rob chewed Eight Ball gum,
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#25. I'm not exactly sure how old the girls are [in Bink & Gollie], but I can pretty much guarantee that their parents will never show up. That would mess up the fun. I do, however, very much like Kate's idea of having Tony [Fucile] draw their portraits.
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#26. Hyperbole is sometimes necessary to get at the truth. (It seems odd, doesn't it, that we have to lie to tell the truth better?)
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#27. At least Lester had the decency to weep at his act of perfidy. Reader, do you know what 'perfidy' means? I have a feeling you do, based on the scene that unfolded here. But you should look up the word in your dictionary, just to be sure.
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#28. It's hard not to immediately fall in love witha dog who has a good sense of humor.
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#29. He felt a wonderful certainty. The impossible, he thought, the impossible is about to happen again.
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#30. 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.
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#32. Thinking about her was the same as the hole you keep on feeling with your tongue after you lose a tooth. Time after time, my mind kept going to that empty spot, the spot where I felt like she should be.
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#34. Perhaps," said the man, "you would like to be lost with us. I have found it much more agreeable to be lost in the company of others.
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#35. They were always on the move.But in truth said bull we are all going nowhere
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#36. Did Rob make it?" Sistine asked Willie May. "He did," said Willie May. "It looks alive. Is it like your bird that you let go?
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#37. The words were good words, Ulysses felt, maybe even great words, but the list was very incomplete. He was just getting started. The words needed to be arranged, fussed with, put in the order of his heart.
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#38. It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.
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#39. Beware of the brokenhearted," said the grandmother, "for they will lead you astray.
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#40. Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
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#42. Not much goes on in the mind of a squirrel.
Huge portions of what is loosely termed "the squirrel brain" are given over to one thought: food.
The average squirrel cogitation goes something like this: I wonder what there is to eat.
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#43. I have been loved, Edward told the stars. So? said the stars. What difference does that make when you are all alone now?
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#44. Allow me to congratulate you on your very astute powers of observation.
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#45. She herself often felt too terrified to go on, but she had never admitted it out loud
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#46. That way, if my mama ever came back, I could recognize her, and I would be able to grab her and hold on to her tight and not let her get away from me again.
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#47. And Edward was surprised to discover that he was listening. Before, when Abilene had talked to him, everything had seemed so boring, so pointless. But now, the stories Nellie told struck him as the most important thing in the world and he listened as if his life depended on what she said. (page 69)
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#48. All words at all times, true or false, whispered or shouted, are clues to the workings of the human heart.
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#49. He must, he realized, know somewhere, deep inside him, more things than he had ever dreamed of.
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#50. Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. And spools of thread.
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#51. If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.
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#52. Once, oh marvelous once, there was a rabbit who found his way home.
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#53. But in truth,' said Bull, 'we are going nowhere. That my friend, is the irony of our constant movement.
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#54. I intended only lilies. That was my intention: a bouquet of lilies. - The Magician
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#55. Bink," said Gollie, "I must inform you that you are giving a home to a truly unremarkable fish."
"I love him" said Bink.
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#56. William Spiver said that the universe was expanding ... that means there will be more of everything! More cheese puffs, more jelly sandwiches, more words, more poems, more love. And more giant donuts ... maybe even gianter donuts. Is gianter a word? It should be.
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#57. Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? Or is it (as the soldier said about happiness) something that you might just as well do, since,in the end, it really makes no difference to anyone but you?
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#58. This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.
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#59. But that is impossible," said Peter.
"Magic is always impossible," said the magician. "It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That is why it is magic.
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#60. I don't understand,' said Despereaux.
'And you will not understand until you lose what you love ...
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#61. Yes, said Cook. That is soup that you are smelling. The princess, not that you would know or care, is missing, bless her goodhearted self. and times are terrible. and when times are terrible, soup is the answer. Don't it smell like the answer?
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#62. There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by it.
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#63. Franny, you are the genuine article. You are solid. You are certain. You are like a refrigerator. You hum.
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#64. I lay there and thought how life was like a Littmus Lozenge, how the sweet and the sad were all mixed up together and how hard it was to separate them out. It was confusing.
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#65. In a dark time, doors will sometimes magically open and let us step inside to the warmth and light of a community.
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#66. 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.
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#67. Life was so short; so many beautiful things slipped away.
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#68. Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.
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#69. READ. You have no business wanting to be a writer unless you are a reader. You should read fantasies and essays, biographies and poetry, fables and fairy tales. Read, read, read, read, read.
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#71. If every babe who cried were still alive, well, then, the world would be a very crowded place, indeed.
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#72. If the wishes came true, they came true in terrible ways. Wishes were dangerous things. That was the idea you got from fairy tales.
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#73. I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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#74. But, reader, there is no comfort in the word "farewell," even if you say it in French. "Farewell" is a word that,in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises absolutely nothing.
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#75. He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together happily ever after.
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#78. Flora hated the phrase "correct me if I'm wrong." In her experience, people only said it when they knew they were right.
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#79. I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.
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#80. Mig watched her father walk away, the red table cloth billowing out behind him. He left his daughter. And, as you already know, he did not look back. Not even once.
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#81. Have you, in truth, ever seen something so heartbreakingly lovely? What are we to make of a world where stars shine bright in the midst of so much darkness and gloom?
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#82. Despereaux was reading the story out loud to himself. He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end ...
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#86. It was astonishing, really, what people could live through. Flora felt cheered up all of a sudden, just thinking about eating seal blubber and doing impossible things, surviving when the odds were against her and her squirrel. They
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#87. Pea was aware suddenly of how fragile her heart was, how much darkness was inside it, fighting, always, with the light. She did not like the rat. She would neverlike the rat, but she knew what she must do to save her own heart.
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#89. What I hope is that the book [Bink & Gollie] delights children. What I hope is that they laugh and laugh and laugh, just as we did when we wrote them.
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#91. Putting on socks is hard work," said Bink. "I'm hungry.
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#92. THE DAYS PASSED. THE SUN ROSE and set and rose and set again and again. Sometimes the
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#93. READING SHOULD NOT BE PRESENTED TO CHILDREN AS A CHORE OR A DUTY. IT SHOULD BE OFFERED TO THEM AS A PRECIOUS GIFT.
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#95. A SUPERHERO SQUIRREL RESTED AT HER FEET, AND SO SHE WAS NOT LONELY AT ALL emblazoned
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#96. I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who liked the book.
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#98. 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.
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#99. What is?', he said. 'What if?' is a question that belongs to magic.
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#100. She were forced to describe it, she would say that it tasted exactly like squirrel: fuzzy, damp, slightly nutty. Have you lost your
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