Quotes About Perseverance

Flora's heart, the lonely, many-armed squid of it, flipped and flailed inside her.

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.

What does it mean to be brave? This was a question Brother Edik asked himself as he walked through the dark woods with Jack Dory and Cannoc and Answelica. To be brave is to not turn away. To be brave is to go forward. To be brave is to love.

She herself often felt too terrified to go on, but she had never admitted it out loud

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

Why would you save me? 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.' - A Tale of Despereaux, Kate Dicamillo - P. 81

Despereaux turned. He looked up and into the Head Mouse's eyes. They were dark eyes, deep and sad and frightened. And as Despereaux looked into them, his heart thudded once, twice.

the story of an unlikely hero

To be brave is to not turn away. To be brave is to go forward. To be brave is to love.

He'll be dead soon. He can't live', said the father. But reader, he did live. This is the story.

I ain't the Princess Pea But someday I will be, The Pea, ha-hee. Someday, I will be.

Putting on socks is hard work, said Bink. I'm hungry.

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

Louisiana stood up again. She was holding Bunny close to her chest. She faced forward. 'Go faster,' she said. 'Are you kidding?' said Beverly. 'Who do you think you are? Some kind of queen? We're pushing as hard as we can. This grocery cart is worthless. It's like the wheels aren't even wheels. It's like they're squares or something.

Kate DiCamillo

But perhaps you do not understand. I was crippled, crippled by an elephant that came through the roof - Madam LaVaughn

Kate DiCamillo

He had done it. He had taken hold

Sometimes the pain in her heart made her feel too terrified to go on. Sometimes it made her want to drop to her knees. But then she would remember that she had a plan.

I kept on going over and over the list in my head. I memorized it the same way I had memorized the list of ten things about my mama. I memorized it so if I didn't find him, I would have some part

It was astonishing, really, what people could live through. Flora felt cheered up all of a sudden, just thinking about eating seal blubber and doing impossible things, surviving when the odds were against her and her squirrel. They

Kate DiCamillo

Despereaux felt a very intense pain in his hindquarters.

The world was so dark! I don't know that I had ever before encountered such darkness.