Top 200 Kate DiCamillo Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Cerita seperti Cahaya.”

— Kate DiCamillo

102. “But, alas, he never really belonged in either place, the sad fate, I am afraid, of those whose hearts break and then mend in crooked ways.”

— Kate DiCamillo

103. “Do you know what it means to be emphatic? I will tell you: It means that when you are being forcibly taken to a dungeon, when you have a large knife at your back, when you are trying to be brave, you are able, still, to think for a moment of the person who is holding the knife.”

— Kate DiCamillo

104. “Are you a man or a mouse?”

— Kate DiCamillo

105. “I don’t know, Louisiana. I can’t see into the future. I do think that, more often than not, love has a way of finding us.”

— Kate DiCamillo

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

— Kate DiCamillo

107. “At least Lester had the decency to weep at his act of perfidy. Reader, do you know what ‘perfidy’ means? I have a feeling you do, based on the scene that unfolded here. But you should look up the word in your dictionary, just to be sure.”

— Kate DiCamillo

108. “When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.”

— Kate DiCamillo

109. “What was it like... to have someone who knew you would always return and who welcomed you with open arms?”

— Kate DiCamillo

110. “May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!”

— Kate DiCamillo

111. “My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I’m always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.”

— Kate DiCamillo

112. “It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.”

— Kate DiCamillo

113. “You know, my eyes ain’t too good at all. I can’t see nothing but the general shape of things, so I got to rely on my heart. Why don’t you go on and tell me everything about yourself, so as I can see you with my heart.”

— Kate DiCamillo

114. “For children: I’m writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I’m writing poems.”

— Kate DiCamillo

115. “The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.”

— Kate DiCamillo

116. “He felt a wonderful certainty. The impossible, he thought, the impossible is about to happen again.”

— Kate DiCamillo

117. “There is a lot of love in him, a lot of love in his heart... And he is up there with no one and nothing to love. It is a bad thing to have love and no where to put it.”

— Kate DiCamillo

118. “All of God’s creatures have names, every last one of them. Of that I am sure: of that I have no doubt at all.”

— Kate DiCamillo

119. “Who can say what astonishments are hidden inside the most mundane being?”

— Kate DiCamillo

120. “He was the kind of person who, if you asked him for one of something, gave you two instead.”

— Kate DiCamillo

121. “I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I’m working on. Once I figure it out, that’s the only thing I’ll play.”

— Kate DiCamillo

122. “Her words sounded the way all those things made him feel, as if the world, the real world, had been punched through, so that he could see something wonderful and dazzling on the other side of it.”

— Kate DiCamillo

123. “The world went on. People left and people died and people went to memorial services and put orange blocks of cheese into their purses. People confessed to you that they were hungry all the time. And then you got up in the morning and pretended that none of it had happened.”

— Kate DiCamillo

124. “Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?”

— Kate DiCamillo

125. “I’m from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,” Sistine said, “home of the Liberty Bell, and I hate the South because the people in it are ignorant. And I’m not staying here in Lister. My father is coming to get me next week.” She looked around the room defiantly. “Well,” said Mrs. Soames, “thank you very much for introducing yourself, Sistine Bailey. You may take your seat before you put your foot in your mouth any farther.” The.”

— Kate DiCamillo

126. “Did Rob make it?” Sistine asked Willie May. “He did,” said Willie May. “It looks alive. Is it like your bird that you let go?”

— Kate DiCamillo

127. “Sometimes, when the light starts to fade, I get a terrible feeling of loneliness, like maybe I am the only person in the world.”

— Kate DiCamillo

128. “He was weeping. Although ‘weeping’ really is to small a word for the activity the kind had undertaken. Tears were cascading from his eyes. A small puddle had formed at his feet. I am not exaggerating. The king, it seemed, was intent on crying himself a river.”

— Kate DiCamillo

129. “The world was beautiful. It surprised me, how beautiful it kept on insisting on being. In spite of all the lies, it was beautiful.”

— Kate DiCamillo

130. “Inside the magic globe that Florence Nightingale carries, there are wishes and hopes and love. And all of these things are very tiny and also very bright. And there are thousands of wishes and hopes and love things, and they move around in the magic globe, and that’s what Florence uses to see by. That is how she sees soldiers who have fallen on the battlefield of life.”

— Kate DiCamillo

131. “Someone will come for you, but first you must open your heart...”

— Kate DiCamillo

132. “Oh, my goodness,” said Louisiana. “I’m just all filled up with feathers and regrets. And fears. I have a lot of fears.”

— Kate DiCamillo

133. “I ask you, why is it so hard to stay away from the euphemisms? They creep in, always, and attempt to make the difficult things more pleasing.”

— Kate DiCamillo

134. “You have a gift, Louisiana, and the more of yourself you put into the song, the more powerful – the more truthful – the song becomes.”

— Kate DiCamillo

135. “I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.”

— Kate DiCamillo

136. “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.”

— Kate DiCamillo

137. “Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl? The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no one.”

— Kate DiCamillo

138. “Listen, said Beverly. Let me tell you something. There is no Very Friendly Animal Center. That cat is long gone.”

— Kate DiCamillo

139. “It occurred to her that nobody really knew what anybody else was upset about, and that seemed like a terrible thing.”

— Kate DiCamillo

140. “Stall! Delay! Obfuscate! “Let’s,” said Flora.”

— Kate DiCamillo

141. “I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.”

— Kate DiCamillo

142. “What was the apostrophe doing there? Did the doctor own the Meescham? And what was it with exclamation marks? Did people not know what they were for? Surprise, anger, joy – that’s what exclamation marks were for. They had nothing to do with who resided where.”

— Kate DiCamillo

143. “Perhaps this is a dream, said Madam La Vaughn from her chair. Perhaps the whole thing has been nothing but a dream.”

— Kate DiCamillo

144. “There was something scary about watching adults sleep. It was as if no one at all were in charge of the world.”

— Kate DiCamillo

145. “He smiled at me. He did that thing again, where he pulled back his lips and showed me his teeth. He smiled so big it made him sneeze. It was like he was saying, I know i’m a mess. Isn’t it funny?”

— Kate DiCamillo

146. “Yes, ma’am. He figured the world was a sorry affair and that it had enough ugly things in it and what he was going to do was concentrate on putting something sweet in it.”

— Kate DiCamillo

147. “I didn’t know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.”

— Kate DiCamillo

148. “I intended lilies, said the magician. but in the clutches of a desparate desire to do something extraordinary, I called down a greater magic and inadvertently caused you a profound harm. I will now try to undo what I have done.”

— Kate DiCamillo

149. “And he told himself, reader, that it was the cloth that he desired and not the light.”

— Kate DiCamillo

150. “She was working to remind herself of who she was. She was working to remember that somewhere in another place entirely she was known and loved.”

— Kate DiCamillo