Top 200 Kate DiCamillo Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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

152. “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

153. “Beware of the brokenhearted,” said the grandmother, “for they will lead you astray.”

— Kate DiCamillo

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

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

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

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157. “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.”

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

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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.”

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160. “Stories are light.”

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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.”

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

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

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164. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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169. “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.”

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170. “Fear is a big waste of time.”

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

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

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

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

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175. “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.”

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

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177. “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

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

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

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

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

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182. “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.”

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

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184. “A what?” said Willie May.”

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185. “You. Now. This you can do.”

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

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

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

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189. “All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.”

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

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

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

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193. “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

194. “He looked at me, and, my goodness, his eyes were bright, and it occurred to me that they were probably so bright because he had never had to ask himself who he was or where he belonged or who he wanted to be.”

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195. “We do not know what will become. What will become is what becomes, and that is all we know.”

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

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197. “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.”

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

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

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200. “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.”

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