Quote by Kate DiCamillo (about Book Dedications & Preambles)

The world is dark, and light is precious.
Come closer, dear reader.
You must trust me.
I am telling you a story.

Kate DiCamillo in The Tale of Despereaux

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Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.

Kate DiCamillo in The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.

Kate DiCamillo in Because of Winn-Dixie

There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.

Kate DiCamillo in The Tale of Despereaux

Romantic Quotes

How will the world change if we do not question it?

Kate DiCamillo in The Magician’s Elephant

You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.

Kate DiCamillo in Because of Winn-Dixie

"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.

Kate DiCamillo in The Tale of Despereaux

Fairytales

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

Kate DiCamillo in 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.

Kate DiCamillo in 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.

Kate DiCamillo in The Tale of Despereaux

Farewell & Goodbye

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

Kate DiCamillo in The Tale of Despereaux

Stories Light

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

Kate DiCamillo in 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."

Kate DiCamillo in 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.

Kate DiCamillo in 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."

Kate DiCamillo in 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?

Kate DiCamillo in 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.

Kate DiCamillo in 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?

Kate DiCamillo in 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.

Kate DiCamillo in The Magician’s Elephant

Magic

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

Kate DiCamillo in The Tale of Despereaux

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

To Michelle - my love and life's partner and Malia and Sasha - whose dazzling light makes everything brighter.

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Michelle Obama Book Dedications & Preambles

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.

Kate DiCamillo in The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

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

After all, you still need time to just sit there and take a look around.

Astrid Lindgren

It's real, Six. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

Colleen Hoover in Hopeless

What other people think of you is none of your business.

Paulo Coelho

Self-Confidence Gossip & Rumors

This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love

The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion

Darkness

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Joanne K. Rowling

Hogwarts

The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Falling in love

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Beauty Love declerations

Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.

Sebastian Fitzek in Therapy

Hope Breakup Grief & Condolence

The dead are dead, and talking won't bring them back to life.

Otfried Preußler in Krabat

There are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

Cornelia Funke

That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.

John Green in The Fault in Our Stars

Pain

The FBI is now the prime functionary of the Deep State. The politicized leadership at the very top has turned it into a tool of surveillance and suppression of American citizens.

Kash Patel in Government Gangsters

FBI

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