Quotes from The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

"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

"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

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

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

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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

Book Dedications & Preambles

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

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

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

Kate DiCamillo

Reading

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

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

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.

Life Optimism Dancing Rain Positive Quotes

Nothing's gonna save our lifes, so... we're breathing borrowed air.

Will Newman in Five Feet Apart

Positive Quotes

"Oh yes, time flies and before you know it you're old," said Pippi. "Come autumn I'll be ten, and I suppose I'll be past my prime then."

Astrid Lindgren in Pippi Longstocking

Age

"But nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her. "They don't bite anybody except in self defense."

Astrid Lindgren in Pippi Longstocking

People say "nothing is impossible", but I do nothing every day.

Winnie the Pooh in Christopher Robin

I always get to where I'm going by walking away from where I've been.

Winnie the Pooh in Christopher Robin

Walking & Going

The Rainbow Fish shared his scales left and right. And the more he gave away, the more delighted he became.

Marcus Pfister in The Rainbow Fish

Give a glittering scale to each one of the other fish. You'll no longer be the most beautiful fish in the sea but you'll discover how to be happy!

Marcus Pfister in The Rainbow Fish

The beginning is always dark.

Michael Ende in The Neverending Story

Beginning

Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can’t explain them, and those who haven’t known them have no understanding of them at all.

Michael Ende in The Neverending Story

Passion

Once there was a boy. He was, let us say, something like fourteen years old; long and loose jointed and towheaded. He wasn't good for much, that boy. His chief delight was to eat and sleep, and after that he liked best to make mischief.

Selma Lagerlöf in Nils Holgersson - The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and - pop! - out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar.

Eric Carle in The Very Hungry Caterpillar

He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself. He stayed inside for more than two weeks. Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his way out and...
he was a beautiful butterfly!

Eric Carle in The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Butterflies

And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.

Maurice Sendak in Where the Wild Things Are

Happiness is not always the best way to be happy.

Judith in Where the Wild Things Are

Happiness

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

Theodor Seuss Geisel in The Lorax

I am the Lorax, and I'll yell and I'll shout for the fine things on earth that are on their way out!

Theodor Seuss Geisel in The Lorax

You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot,
for The places and people you're lucky you're not!

Theodor Seuss Geisel in Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?

When you think things are bad,
when you feel sour and blue,
when you start to get mad...
you should do what I do!
Just tell yourself, Duckie,
you're really quite lucky!
Some people are much more...
oh, ever so much more...
oh, muchly much-much more
unlucky than you!

Theodor Seuss Geisel in Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?

So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!

Theodor Seuss Geisel in Horton Hears a Who!

Voices Elections & Voting Mouth

A person's a person, no matter how small.

Theodor Seuss Geisel in Horton Hears a Who!

Small Things Self-Confidence

Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable.

Roald Dahl in Matilda

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

Roald Dahl in Matilda

Children & Childhood Parents

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...

Theodor Seuss Geisel in Oh, the Places You'll Go

Character Self-Confidence

Step with care and great tact
And remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act
Just never forget to be dexterous and deft
And never mix up your right foot with your left.

Theodor Seuss Geisel in Oh, the Places You'll Go

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