The best Quotes by Kate DiCamillo

"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.

The Tale of Despereaux

Fairytales

Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains.

The Tale of Despereaux

Love

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.

The Tale of Despereaux

Grief & Condolence

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.

The Tale of Despereaux

Farewell & Goodbye

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.

The Tale of Despereaux

Stories Light

It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.

The Magician’s Elephant

Breakup Solitude & Loneliness

"Once there was a princess who was very beautiful. She shone bright as the stars on a moonless night. But what difference did it make that she was beautiful? None. No difference."
"Why did it make no difference?" asked Abilene.
"Because," said Pellegrina, "She was a princess who loved no one and cared nothing for love, even though there were many who loved her."

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Say it, reader. Say the word "quest" out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full of wonder, so full of hope.

The Tale of Despereaux

Adventures

"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."

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Positive Quotes

I have been loved, Edward told the stars. So? said the stars. What difference does that make when you are all alone now?

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Nothing would be easier without you, because you are everything, all of it- sprinkles, quarks, giant donuts, eggs sunny-side up- you are the ever-expanding universe to me.

Flora

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?

The Tale of Despereaux

Hope

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.

The Magician’s Elephant

Magic

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

The Tale of Despereaux

Look at me, he said to her. His arms and legs jerked. Look at me. You got your wish. I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me. The old woman turned and hobbled away. Come back, thought Edward. Fix me.

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

Reading

Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book.

When I was starting to write, I was fascinated with 'Knuffle Bunny' by Mo Willems. I remember taking it home and typing it out, trying to figure out how it worked. It's just a classic, with dauntingly few words.

I have no talents. But I do have hope. And wonder. And love. Maybe those are talents?

I hate to cook and love to eat.

You have to learn how to write each book.

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Extraordinary things are possible… if you believe.

The Magician’s Elephant

Faith

Peter Duchene: "My sister. How do I find her?"
Fortune Teller: "Follow the magician's elephant!"

The Magician’s Elephant

A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.

Zeus in Hercules

Heart Heros Size

Reading is a hobby, but for some of us, it's an escape from the difficulties we face. To all of you who escape into books, I want to thank you for escaping into this one.

Colleen Hoover in Reminders of Him

Reading Book Dedications & Preambles

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince

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Heart Seeing Romantic Quotes

We all remember the bed time stories of our childhoods. The shoe fits Cinderella, the frog turns into a prince, sleeping beauty is awakened with a kiss. Once upon a time and then they lived happily ever after. Fairy tales, the stuff of dreams. The problem is, fairy tales don't come true. It's the other stories, the ones that begin with dark and stormy nights and end in the unspeakable. It's the nightmares that always seem to become reality. The person that invented the phrase "Happily ever after" should have his ass kicked, so hard!

Meredith Grey in Grey's Anatomy - Season 5 Episode 1

Cinderella Sleeping Beauty Fairytales

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

Helsinki in Money Heist - Season 4 Episode 5

Love

Those that we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Grief & Condolence Day of the Dead

Never say goodbye, because goodbye means going away - and going away means forgetting.

J.M. Barrie in Peter Pan

Farewell & Goodbye Forgetting

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