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READING SHOULD NOT BE PRESENTED TO CHILDREN AS A CHORE OR A DUTY. IT SHOULD BE OFFERED TO THEM AS A PRECIOUS GIFT.

Rob was dismayed to see that she was still wearing his shirt and jeans.

Hey, disease boy!" Norton shouted. "We know what you got. It's called

Farewell is a word that, in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises nothing.

Light is precious in a world so dark.

It is important that you say what you mean to say. Time is too short. You must speak the words that matter.

And this is a time to act, not wonder.

Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl?
The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no one.

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.

I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.

I hate to cook and love to eat.

thought. "You want some macaroni

Edward? Yes yes yes. It is me. Edward thought.

You are down there alone, the stars seemed to say to him. And we are up here, in our constellations, together.

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.

Other people's tragedies should not be the subject of idle conversation.

He must, he realized, know somewhere, deep inside him, more things than he had ever dreamed of.

There is somebody who loves me," said Despereaux. "And I love her and that is the only thing that matters to me.

What was it like ... to have someone who knew you would always return and who welcomed you with open arms?

She was working to remind herself of who she was. She was working to remember that somewhere in another place entirely she was known and loved.

them back. Sometimes, I hit them first." "Oh,

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

She herself often felt too terrified to go on, but she had never admitted it out loud

Stories are light.

Flora's heart, the lonely, many-armed squid of it, flipped and flailed inside her.

I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.

What is?', he said. 'What if?' is a question that belongs to magic.

This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.

There was something scary about watching adults sleep. It was as if no one at all were in charge of the world.

It seems to be that way with most things. No one to do the really disagreeable jobs except oneself.

I ask you, why is it so hard to stay away from the euphemisms? They creep in, always, and attempt to make the difficult things more pleasing.

Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.

He allowed his brother to lead him to his fate.

I have a deep gratitude that Ida B exists.

Holy unanticipated occurrences!

You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.

Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?

Desperaux," she said. He saw his name on her lips.
"I honor you," whispered Desperaux. "I honor you.

It occurred to her that nobody really knew what anybody else was upset about, and that seemed like a terrible thing.

They were always on the move.But in truth said bull we are all going nowhere

I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

He felt a wonderful certainty. The impossible, he thought, the impossible is about to happen again.

That was the thing about tragedy. It was just sitting there, keeping you company, waiting. And you had absolutely no idea.

May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!

Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.

away from the car.

I made you something,

Where had Mrs. Borkowski's should gone?

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Book the First A MOUSE IS BORN Book the Second CHIAROSCURO Book the Third GOR! THE TALE OF MIGGERY SOW Book the Fourth RECALLED TO THE LIGHT Coda

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.

Flora hated the phrase "correct me if I'm wrong." In her experience, people only said it when they knew they were right.

But she couldn't help it. She did hope. She was hoping. She had been hoping all along.

When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.

Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.

A what? said Willie May.

How many times, Edward wondered, would he have to leave without getting the chance to say goodbye?

I have brought you half of my pancakes," said Gollie.
"And I have removed one of my outrageous socks," said Bink. "It's a compromise bonanza!

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.

Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear reader. They are right.

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.

Do not hope; instead, observe were words that Flora, as a cynic, had found useful in the extreme. She repeated them to herself a lot.

It was the strangest things, how happiness came out of nowhere and inflated your soul.

Sometimes there are no reasons. Often, most of the time, there are no reasons. The world cannot be explained.

All words at all times, true or false, whispered or shouted, are clues to the workings of the human heart.

But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.

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

And hope is like love ... a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

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.

Don't we all live in our heads? Where else could we possibly exist? Our brains are the universe.

If the wishes came true, they came true in terrible ways. Wishes were dangerous things. That was the idea you got from fairy tales.

I don't understand,' said Despereaux.
'And you will not understand until you lose what you love ...

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.

I have been loved said Edward to the stars.

That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.

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.

Truly, I did not intend to harm you, he said. That was never my intention.

Franny, you are the genuine article. You are solid. You are certain. You are like a refrigerator. You hum.

The three of them walked through the woods in silence. Sistine and Rob chewed Eight Ball gum,

He let the light from the upstairs world enter him and fill him. He gasped aloud with the wonder of it.

I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.

Rob sat out on the curb in front of the motel room and waited for Sistine to come back from using the phone.

To have someone get out of bed and bring you little fishes and sit with you as you eat them in the dark of night. To hum to you. This is love.

Bink," said Gollie, "I must inform you that you are giving a home to a truly unremarkable fish."
"I love him" said Bink.

Stall! Delay! Obfuscate! "Let's," said Flora.

Cock his head this way and that. Called him Cricket, on

Despereaux was reading the story out loud to himself. He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end ...

Melancholy, I repeated. I liked the way it sounded, like there was music hidden somewhere inside it. Kate Di Camillo, Because of Winn Dixie

greatly. If you have no intention of loving or being loved, then the whole journey is pointless.

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

She liked the way the words sounded. She imagined them floating above her in a comic-strip bubble

Listen, said Beverly. Let me tell you something. There is no Very Friendly Animal Center. That cat is long gone.

Bah, cynics," said Dr. Meescham. "Cynics are people who are afraid to believe.

The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.

To Flora, the doorbell sounded like the electric chair. Not

Beware of the brokenhearted," said the grandmother, "for they will lead you astray.

She were forced to describe it, she would say that it tasted exactly like squirrel: fuzzy, damp, slightly nutty. Have you lost your

I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.

King Phillip and his Queen Rosemary