Kate DiCamillo Quotes

Men and boys always want to go fight. They are always looking for a reason to go to war. It is the s...

You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.

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

Dear God, thank you for warm summer nights and candlelight and good food. But thank you most of all ...

It's hard not to immediately fall in love witha dog who has a good sense of humor.

But I'm not ready to let Winn-Dixie go.

It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.

No one cared what she wanted. No one had ever cared. And perhaps, worst of all, no one ever would ca...

Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.

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

Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl?The answer to that question, reader,...

She might be a natural-born cynic, but she knew the right word when she heard it.

We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to ...

Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as ...

He was a squirrel. Could he be a superhero, too?

If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Sto...

I love your round head,the brilliant green,the watching blue,these letters,this world, you.I am very...

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

And Rob knew then that he had picked the right person to tell.

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

the story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty...

The April sun, weak but determined, shone through a castle window and from there squeezed itself thr...

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

He said, 'I forgive you, Pa."And he said those words because he sensed that it was the only way to s...

There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, anot...

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

Stories are light.

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

Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? O...

Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best,...

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

The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him.

I have been loved said Edward to the stars.

Normally, Edward would have found intrusive, clingy behavior of this sort very annoying, but there w...

Edward knew what it was like to say over and over again the names of those you had left behind. He k...

He was agitated for some reason that he could not name. (page 35)

And Edward was surprised to discover that he was listening. Before, when Abilene had talked to him, ...

It is a horrible, terrible thing, the worst thing, to watch somebody you love die right in front of ...

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

Gloria put a bowl of stew in Peter's hands. "Eat," she said.Peter raised the spoon to his lips. He c...

He knew how to construct a song out of the nothing of day-to-day life and how to sing that nothing i...

There," she said. She rocked him back and forth. "There, you foolish, beautiful boy who wants to cha...

Magic is always impossible. It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is imposs...

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

But that is impossible," said Peter."Magic is always impossible," said the magician. "It begins with...

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

The world went on. People left and people died and people went to memorial services and put orange b...

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

Oh, my goodness,” said Louisiana. “I’m just all filled up with feathers and regrets. And fears. I ha...

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

If the wishes came true, they came true in terrible ways. Wishes were dangerous things. That was the...

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

Not much goes on in the mind of a squirrel.Huge portions of what is loosely termed "the squirrel bra...

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

She said the words, and then she had a strange moment of seeing them, hanging there over her head. "...

The words were good words, Ulysses felt, maybe even great words, but the list was very incomplete. H...

So many miracles have not yet happened.

Nothingwould beeasier withoutyou,because youare everything,all of it-sprinkles, quarks, giantdonuts,...

He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it...

There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they...

Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almo...

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

There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.