Top 200 Kate DiCamillo Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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

152. “To have someone get out of bed and bring you little fishes and sit with you as you eat them in the dark of night. To hum to you. This is love.”

— Kate DiCamillo

153. “I have been loved said Edward to the stars.”

— Kate DiCamillo

154. “Stories are light.”

— Kate DiCamillo

155. “Truly, I did not intend to harm you, he said. That was never my intention.”

— Kate DiCamillo

156. “Franny, you are the genuine article. You are solid. You are certain. You are like a refrigerator. You hum.”

— Kate DiCamillo

157. “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

158. “Here is something I have learned: you should never expect help from someone who perpetually has their hair in curlers.”

— Kate DiCamillo

159. “Life was so short; so many beautiful things slipped away. Where, for instance, were his brothers now? He did not know; he could not say. Madam.”

— Kate DiCamillo

160. “It seems to be that way with most things. No one to do the really disagreeable jobs except oneself.”

— Kate DiCamillo

161. “The longer he marched, the more convinced Peter became that things were indeed hopeless and that an elephant was a ridiculous answer to any question- but a particularly ridiculous answer to a question posed by the human heart.”

— Kate DiCamillo

162. “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

163. “The world is dark, and light is precious.”

— Kate DiCamillo

164. “You must wonder who will love you, whom you will love next.”

— Kate DiCamillo

165. “And this is a time to act, not wonder.”

— Kate DiCamillo

166. “Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.”

— Kate DiCamillo

167. “Flora hated the phrase “correct me if I’m wrong.” In her experience, people only said it when they knew they were right.”

— Kate DiCamillo

168. “The April sun, weak but determined, shone through a castle window and from there squeezed itself through a small hole in the wall and placed one golden finger on the little mouse.”

— Kate DiCamillo

169. “He allowed his brother to lead him to his fate.”

— Kate DiCamillo

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

— Kate DiCamillo

171. “Fear is a big waste of time.”

— Kate DiCamillo

172. “I want to remind people of the great and profound joy that can be found in stories, and that stories can connect us to each other, and that reading together changes everybody involved.”

— Kate DiCamillo

173. “I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.”

— Kate DiCamillo

174. “If the wishes came true, they came true in terrible ways. Wishes were dangerous things. That was the idea you got from fairy tales.”

— Kate DiCamillo

175. “If every babe who cried were still alive, well, then, the world would be a very crowded place, indeed.”

— Kate DiCamillo

176. “Normalcy is an illusion, of course,” said William Spiver. “There is no normal.”

— Kate DiCamillo

177. “Nothing is more terrifying to evil than joy.”

— Kate DiCamillo

178. “Flora had decided that this was part of the reason her parents had divorced. Not the noise of the writing, but the writing itself. Specifically, the writing of romance. Flora.”

— Kate DiCamillo

179. “Because that is what it means to be alive, on this infinitesimally spinning planet. It means you have cares. Doesn’t it?”

— Kate DiCamillo

180. “Do gooders don’t interest me. They are the least interesting people on the planet.”

— Kate DiCamillo

181. “You. Now. This you can do.”

— Kate DiCamillo

182. “A what?” said Willie May.”

— Kate DiCamillo

183. “Flora’s heart, the lonely, many-armed squid of it, flipped and flailed inside her.”

— Kate DiCamillo

184. “There is goodness in many hearts. In most hearts. In some hearts. I love peanuts.”

— Kate DiCamillo

185. “He had china arms and china legs, china paws and a china head, a china torso and a china nose.”

— Kate DiCamillo

186. “Well now, look at that,” she said. “That dog is smiling at me.” “It’s a talent of his,” I told her. “It is a fine talent,” Miss Franny said. “A very fine talent.” And she smiled back at Winn-Dixie. “We could be friends,” I said to Miss Franny. “I mean you and me and Winn-Dixie, we could all be friends.”

— Kate DiCamillo

187. “And Rob knew then that he had picked the right person to tell.”

— Kate DiCamillo

188. “The story is smarter than I am.”

— Kate DiCamillo

189. “If only I had wings, he thought, I could fly to her.”

— Kate DiCamillo

190. “Where’s your dress?”

— Kate DiCamillo

191. “I ain’t learned a thing. Not one thing. Except that there ain’t nothing in this world that can’t happen. That’s it. That’s the whole of it.”

— Kate DiCamillo

192. “Mark that it is dangerous. Trouble has a very long tail.”

— Kate DiCamillo

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

— Kate DiCamillo

194. “Hey, disease boy!” Norton shouted. “We know what you got. It’s called.”

— Kate DiCamillo

195. “And shouldn’t home be the place where you are allowed to be yourself, loved as yourself?”

— Kate DiCamillo

196. “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.”

— Kate DiCamillo

197. “But I’m not ready to let Winn-Dixie go.”

— Kate DiCamillo

198. “It’s different for everyone she said, you find out on your own. But in the meantime, you got to remember, you can’t always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they’re doing now.”

— Kate DiCamillo

199. “Mostly, he looked like a big piece of old brown carpet that had been left out in the rain.”

— Kate DiCamillo

200. “It’s kind of a strange church and I thought Winn-Dixie would fit right in.”

— Kate DiCamillo