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Kate DiCamillo

The Tale of Despereaux

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  • Meiliana Kanhas quoted4 years ago
    But still, here are the words Despereaux Tilling spoke to his father. 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.
  • Meiliana Kanhas quoted4 years ago
    Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love, a powerful, wonderful thing.

    And a ridiculous thing, too.
  • Meiliana Kanhas quoted4 years ago
    Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.
  • Meiliana Kanhas quoted4 years ago
    Rat.

    In the middle of all that beauty, it immediately became clear that it was an extremely distasteful syllable.
  • Meiliana Kanhas quoted4 years ago
    “I think,” said Roscuro, “that the meaning of life is light.”
  • Meiliana Kanhas quoted4 years ago
    But, reader, there is no comfort in the word “farewell,” even if you say it in French. “Farewell” is a word that, in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises absolutely nothing.
  • kalistahas quoted4 years ago
    Reader, nothing is sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.
  • kalistahas quoted4 years ago
    Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love, a powerful, wonderful thing.
  • kalistahas quoted4 years ago
    Do you know what it means to be empathetic?

    I will tell you: It means that when you are being forcibly taken to a dungeon, when you have a large knife pointed 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 that knife.
  • kalistahas quoted4 years ago
    you know what it means to be empathetic?

    I will tell you: It means that when you are being forcibly taken to a dungeon, when you have a large knife pointed 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 that knife.
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