“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 ...”

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

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”