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In a dark time, doors will sometimes magically open and let us step inside to the warmth and light of a community.
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I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.
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Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
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And he told himself, reader, that it was the cloth that he desired and not the light.
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What I hope is that the book [Bink & Gollie] delights children. What I hope is that they laugh and laugh and laugh, just as we did when we wrote them.
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He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be true. Most of it would be true.
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And this is a time to act, not wonder.
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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. — Kate DiCamillo
Are you a man or a mouse?
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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.
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The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him.
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Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
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I hate to cook and love to eat.
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The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.
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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
King Phillip and his Queen Rosemary
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She liked the way the words sounded. She imagined them floating above her in a comic-strip bubble
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There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.
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If every babe who cried were still alive, well, then, the world would be a very crowded place, indeed.
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I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
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Listen, said Beverly. Let me tell you something. There is no Very Friendly Animal Center. That cat is long gone.
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There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.
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She were forced to describe it, she would say that it tasted exactly like squirrel: fuzzy, damp, slightly nutty. Have you lost your
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But I'm not ready to let Winn-Dixie go.
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To Flora, the doorbell sounded like the electric chair. Not
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It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.
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Rat. A curse, an insult, a word totally without light.
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A great reader makes a great writer
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Beware of the brokenhearted," said the grandmother, "for they will lead you astray.
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I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
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If he was dead, well, that was interesting, too.
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Rob sat out on the curb in front of the motel room and waited for Sistine to come back from using the phone.
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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.
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smiled back. Winn-Dixie
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Bink," said Gollie, "I must inform you that you are giving a home to a truly unremarkable fish.""I love him" said Bink. — Kate DiCamillo
Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.
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End of the First Book
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For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems.
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Stall! Delay! Obfuscate! "Let's," said Flora.
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But, alas, he never really belonged in either place, the sad fate, I am afraid, of those whose hearts break and then mend in crooked ways.
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Where's your dress?
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Cock his head this way and that. Called him Cricket, on
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Despereaux was reading the story out loud to himself. He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end ...
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Melancholy, I repeated. I liked the way it sounded, like there was music hidden somewhere inside it. Kate Di Camillo, Because of Winn Dixie
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I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.
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Perhaps this is a dream, said Madam La Vaughn from her chair. Perhaps the whole thing has been nothing but a dream.
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I love your round head,the brilliant green,
the watching blue,
these letters,
this world, you.
I am very, very hungry. — Kate DiCamillo
I promise to always turn back toward you.
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If the wishes came true, they came true in terrible ways. Wishes were dangerous things. That was the idea you got from fairy tales.
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How will the world change if we do not question it?
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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
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But perhaps you do not understand. I was crippled, crippled by an elephant that came through the roof - Madam LaVaughn
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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.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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Once, oh marvelous once, there was a rabbit who found his way home.
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Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. And spools of thread.
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Don't we all live in our heads? Where else could we possibly exist? Our brains are the universe.
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Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing.And a ridiculous thing, too. — Kate DiCamillo
He'll be dead soon. He can't live', said the father.But reader, he did live.
This is the story. — Kate DiCamillo
I don't understand,' said Despereaux.'And you will not understand until you lose what you love ... — 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.
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It's not even that I bump into things. It's more that things leap out of nowhere and bump into me
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Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.
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I have been loved said Edward to the stars.
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That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.
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I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who liked the book.
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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.
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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.
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How many times, Edward wondered, would he have to leave without getting the chance to say goodbye?
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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?)
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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! — Kate DiCamillo
He let the light from the upstairs world enter him and fill him. He gasped aloud with the wonder of it.
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It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.
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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.
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Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear reader. They are right.
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But answer me this: how can a story end happily if there is no love?
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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.
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And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.
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A what? said Willie May.
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It was the strangest things, how happiness came out of nowhere and inflated your soul.
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So many miracles have not yet happened.
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Did Rob make it?" Sistine asked Willie May. "He did," said Willie May. "It looks alive. Is it like your bird that you let go?
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Sometimes there are no reasons. Often, most of the time, there are no reasons. The world cannot be explained.
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THE DAYS PASSED. THE SUN ROSE and set and rose and set again and again. Sometimes the
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All words at all times, true or false, whispered or shouted, are clues to the workings of the human heart.
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But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.
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Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.
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And hope is like love ... a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.
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Putting on socks is hard work," said Bink. "I'm hungry.
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