“ The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time. Kate DiCamillo
“ 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. Kate DiCamillo
“ THE DAYS PASSED. THE SUN ROSE and set and rose and set again and again. Sometimes the Kate DiCamillo
“ Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. And spools of thread. Kate DiCamillo
“ 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
“ 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… Kate DiCamillo
“ It's not even that I bump into things. It's more that things leap out of nowhere and bump into me Kate DiCamillo
“ It was important to me to hear how Littmus survived after losing everything he loved. Kate DiCamillo
“ 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. Kate DiCamillo
“ 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
“ I intended lilies, said the magician. but in the clutches of a desparate desire to do something extraordinary, I called down a greater magic and inadvertently caused you a profound harm. I will now tr… Kate DiCamillo
“ I ain’t the Princess Pea But someday I will be, The Pea, ha-hee. Someday, I will be. Kate DiCamillo
“ 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?) Kate DiCamillo
“ How many times, Edward wondered, would he have to leave without getting the chance to say goodbye? Kate DiCamillo
“ How do you know if you are a writer? For once, I am going to answer a question as directly as I am able. My answer goes like this. You know that you are a writer if you are imaginative. You know that… Kate DiCamillo
