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

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

— Kate DiCamillo

153. “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

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

— Kate DiCamillo

155. “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

156. “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

157. “Stories are light.”

— Kate DiCamillo

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

— Kate DiCamillo

159. “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

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

— Kate DiCamillo

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

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

— Kate DiCamillo

166. “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

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

— Kate DiCamillo

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

— Kate DiCamillo

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

— Kate DiCamillo

170. “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

171. “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

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

— Kate DiCamillo

173. “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

174. “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

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

— Kate DiCamillo

176. “Fear is a big waste of time.”

— Kate DiCamillo

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

— Kate DiCamillo

178. “A what?” said Willie May.”

— Kate DiCamillo

179. “You. Now. This you can do.”

— Kate DiCamillo

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

— Kate DiCamillo

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

— Kate DiCamillo

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

— Kate DiCamillo

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

— Kate DiCamillo

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

— Kate DiCamillo

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

— Kate DiCamillo

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

— Kate DiCamillo

187. “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

188. “We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong. We shall all, in the end, find our way home.”

— Kate DiCamillo

189. “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

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

— Kate DiCamillo

191. “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.”

— Kate DiCamillo

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

— 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. “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

195. “Frank thought how mysterious the world was, how unexplainable and sometimes frightening. But to sit in the kitchen and read to someone he loved and to push back the darkness with a story – that was a wonderful thing.”

— Kate DiCamillo

196. “Pea was aware suddenly of how fragile her heart was, how much darkness was inside it, fighting, always, with the light.”

— Kate DiCamillo

197. “Let her have her dangerous will.”

— Kate DiCamillo

198. “What world is this I now inhabit, and how shall I live in it?”

— Kate DiCamillo

199. “That way, if my mama ever came back, I could recognize her, and I would be able to grab her and hold on to her tight and not let her get away from me again.”

— Kate DiCamillo

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

— Kate DiCamillo