Quotes About Courage

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

He said, 'I forgive you, Pa. And he said those words because he sensed that it was the only way to save his own heart, to stop it from breaking in two. Despereaux, reader, spoke those words to save himself.

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

I have never known a mouse who has made it out of the dungeon only to go back into it again. Goodbye, friend. Goodbye, mouse among mice.

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.

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

If you have not left your home in the middle of the night without even giving it a backward glance; if you have not left your cat and your friends and also a one-eyed dog named Buddy without getting to tell any of them good-bye; if you have not stood on the side of the road in Georgia, somewhere just past the irrevocable state line, and waited for someone to come along and give you a ride, well, then you cannot understand the desperation that was in my heart that day.

Kate DiCamillo

Despereaux felt a very intense pain in his hindquarters.

A SUPERHERO SQUIRREL RESTED AT HER FEET, AND SO SHE WAS NOT LONELY AT ALL emblazoned

Yes, sir, said Despereaux. He raised his voice. But...I broke the rules for good reasons. Because of music. And because of love.

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 so brave and true?

You got to rescue yourself.

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

Kate DiCamillo

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

Killing him will not banish him from your dreams, said Cannoc. I can assure you of that. Think on who you are, Jack Dory.

TERRIBLE THINGS CAN HAPPEN TO YOU!

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.

Sometimes the pain in her heart made her feel too terrified to go on. Sometimes it made her want to drop to her knees.

To be alive makes up for everything; there ought to be fears in my heart, but there aren't; something stronger sweeps them out; something like a wind.

I'd never go back—I might be frightened, but I'd be ashamed to run.