Quotes from Kate DiCamillo

There is just no predicting what kind of sentences you might say, thought Flora. For instance, who would ever think you would shout, "You're going to vacuum up that squirrel!"?

Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.

You got to rescue yourself.

In my dream, you are standing in front of the vending machine from the Good Night, Sleep Tight, and you are smiling at me, using all of your teeth. You say, Select anything you want', darling. Provisions have been made. Provisions have been made. I am so happy when you show up in my dream and say those words to me.

HE IS AN UNASSUMING JANITOR. BUT HE WILL DARE TO BATTLE THE DARKNESS OF THE UNIVERSE. DO YOU DOUBT HIM? DO NOT. ALFRED T. SLIPPER WILL LIVE TO FIGHT THE FORCES OF EVIL. HE WILL BECOME KNOWN TO THE WORLD AS INCANDESTO! Flora

Because you, mouse, can tell Gregory a story. Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.

HE WILL BECOME KNOWN TO THE WORLD AS ULYSSES! Holy

The three of them walked through the woods in silence. Sistine and Rob chewed Eight Ball gum

Should you be driving? said the woman. I should be driving, I told her. I gave her a very-serious grown-up-to-grown-up sort of look. The situation is dire.

Who was I without the Flying Elefantes? Who was I without Granny? And who was I without a curse upon my head?

It was because he had not loved Abilene enough. And now she was gone from him. And he would never be able to make it right.

I want things to be normal. I want a daughter who is happy. I want her to have friends who aren't squirrels. I don't want her to end up unloved and all alone in the world. But it doesn't matter, does it?

Poetry was nothing but words to say over a grave, something to throw into a hole in the ground.

Sorry.' He lowered his head and sniffed the floor. But, reader, he was not smelling. He was listening, with his big ears, to the sweet sound that no other mouse seemed to hear.

There will one day come a girl child who will unseat a king and bring about a great change.

How could people send their children away? How did anybody say goodbye to someone they loved? But that was what the world demanded, wasn't it? Again and again, the world insisted upon betrayals, goodbyes. How could anyone bear it?

I said, What is that smell? A man's voice answered me. He said, That's cake, darling. I liked that answer very much. I think that cake is a very good word, in general, and that people should use it as answers to questions more often.

To Flora, the doorbell sounded like the electric chair. Not

Did I ask ye how old you were today? Get out of my face before I give ye a good clout to the ear.

Words for Flora Nothing would be easier withou you, because you are everything, all of it- sprinkles, quarks, giant donuts,eggs sunny side up you are the ever expanding universe to me.

What we got, all we got, is each other. And we got to learn to make do with that.

But, reader, we must not forget that Kind Phillip loved the queen and that without her, he was lost. 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.

If he was dead, well, that was interesting, too.

had held the gun that shot the tiger. They were the hands that put the medicine on his legs. They were the hands that had held him when he cried. They were complicated hands, Rob thought.