“ He felt a wonderful certainty. The impossible, he thought, the impossible is about to happen again. Kate DiCamillo
“ But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole. Kate DiCamillo
“ And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen. Kate DiCamillo
“ He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be true. Most of it would be true. Kate DiCamillo
“ And that, after all, is how it ended.Quietly.In a world muffled by the gentle, forgiving hand of snow. Kate DiCamillo
“ She herself often felt too terrified to go on, but she had never admitted it out loud Kate DiCamillo
“ Normally, Edward would have found intrusive, clingy behavior of this sort very annoying, but there was something about Sarah Ruth. He wanted to take care of her. He wanted to protect her. He wanted to… Kate DiCamillo
“ He knew how to construct a song out of the nothing of day-to-day life and how to sing that nothing into a song so beautiful that it could sustain the vision of a whole and better world. Kate DiCamillo
“ Desperaux, she said. He saw his name on her lips.I honor you, whispered Desperaux. I honor you. Kate DiCamillo
“ At the last moment, Antoinette came out of her faint and shouted one word to her child.That word, reader, was adieu...Adieu is the French word for farewell. Kate DiCamillo
