Despereaux Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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