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Reader Quotes by Kate DiCamillo
- Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.
- Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.
- 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…
- There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and…
- The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.
- He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair…
- Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? Or is it (as…
- Reader, you may ask this queston. In fact, you must ask this question. Is it ridiculous for a very small, sickly, big-eared mouse fall in…
- Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear reader. They are right.
- 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…
- There are hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided…
- 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…
- Say it, reader. Say the word 'quest' out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full of wonder, so…
- 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…
- Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing. And a ridiculous thing, too.
More Reader Quotes
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson
- I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. — Isaac Asimov
- I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'… — Margaret Atwood
- One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered… — Beverly Cleary
- All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick… — Steve Almond
- A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than… — Leonard Michaels
- As a reader I feel included a lot in Julie Carr’s hard and beautiful book. I can pretty much hear its author… — Eileen Myles