So many miracles have not yet happened.
I’m from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Sistine said, home of the Liberty Bell, and I hate the South because the people in it are ignorant. And I’m not staying here in Lister. My father is coming to get...
It was a singular sensation to be held so gently and yet so fiercely, to be stared down at with so much love.
I made you something,
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?)
He said, 'I forgive you, Pa.And he said those words because he sensed that it was the only way to save his own heart, to stop it from breaking in two. Despereaux, reader, spoke those words to save him...
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?
Gloria put a bowl of stew in Peter's hands. Eat, she said.Peter raised the spoon to his lips. He chewed. He swallowed.It had been a long time since he had eaten anything besides tiny fish and old brea...
Don't we all live in our heads? Where else could we possibly exist? Our brains the universe.
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.
Leprosy.
When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.
There ain't no way you can hold on to something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.
The longer he marched, the more convinced Peter became that things were indeed hopeless and that an elephant was a ridiculous answer to any question- but a particularly ridiculous answer to a question...
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.
It’s hard not to immediately fall in love with a dog who has a good sense of humor.
It is important that you say what you mean to say. Time is too short. You must speak the words that matter.
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.
I said, What is that smell?
I intended only lilies. That was my intention: a bouquet of lilies. - The Magician