Quotes from Kate DiCamillo

And he is up there with no one and nothing to love. It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.

see it tomorrow?" I asked. "Child," she said, "as long as this is my garden, you're welcome in it. But that tree ain't going to have changed much by tomorrow." "But I want to see you, too," I said. "Hmmmph," said Gloria Dump. "I ain't going nowhere. I be right here." I woke Winn-Dixie up then. He had peanut butter

Below him, the lamplighter was lighting the lamps that lined the wide avenue.

Leo Matienne had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers.

was important to me to hear how Littmus survived after losing everything he loved.

You, friend, are on a quest. I don't know what that is, said Despereaux. You don't have to know. You just have to feel compelled to do the thing, the impossible, important task at hand.

I know something that's in a cage," said Rob, pushing the words past the tightness in his throat. Willie May nodded her head, but she wasn't listening. She was looking past Rob, past the white sheet, past the laundry room, past the Kentucky Star. "Who don't?" she said finally. "Who don't know something in a cage?

Rob was dismayed to see that she was still wearing his shirt and jeans.

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

hose. She pawed at his clothes and beat his tail. She dusted his

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

Edward felt a sharp pain somewhere deep inside his china chest. For the first time, his heart called out to him.

she were forced to describe it, she would say that it tasted exactly like squirrel: fuzzy, damp, slightly nutty. "Have you lost your

Nothing would be easier without you, because you are everything, all of it — sprinkles, quarks, giant donuts, eggs sunny - side up — you are the ever - expanding universe to me.

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

Most everything is incredibly stupid.

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

Say it, reader. Say the word 'quest' out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full of wonder, so full of hope.

Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains.

I thought I was going nowhere, but now I see there was a pattern.

thought. "You want some macaroni

all of a sudden

The more I think about it, the more terrified I am.

Maybelline's favorite movies were the love stories.