Quotes by Kate DiCamillo

“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.”

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

“Oh, my goodness, said Louisiana. Im just all filled up with feathers and regrets. And fears. I have a lot of fears.”

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

“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 ...”

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

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

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

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

“Men and boys always want to go fight. They are always looking for a reason to go to war. It is the saddest thing. They have this abiding notion that war is fun. And no history lesson will convince ...”

“There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.”

“Magic is always impossible. It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That's why it is magic.”

“If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting everywhere. You just have to open your eyes and your heart.”

“Nothingwould beeasier withoutyou,because youare everything,all of it-sprinkles, quarks, giantdonuts, eggs sunny-side up-youare the ever-expandinguniverseto me.”

“Normally, Edward would have found intrusive, clingy behavior of this sort very annoying, but there was something about Sarah Ruth. He wanted to take care of her. He wanted to protect her. He wanted...”

“She said the words, and then she had a strange moment of seeing them, hanging there over her head. "You're going to vacuum up that squi”

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

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

“There," she said. She rocked him back and forth. "There, you foolish, beautiful boy who wants to change the world. There, there. And who could keep from loving you? Who could keep from loving a boy...”

“The words were good words, Ulysses felt, maybe even great words, but the list was very incomplete. He was just getting started. The words needed to be arranged, fussed with, put in the order of his...”