Quote by Kate DiCamillo Download Open image ““Flora’s heart, the lonely, many-armed squid of it, flipped and flailed inside her.”” — Kate DiCamillo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“He stood at the table facing Flora and blowing heavily on his tea and staring at her. Flora did not mind. It was quite… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
“She was an ocean, confined in a coffee mug. And she had the galaxies, confined in her pretty eyes.” — Akshay Vasu Copy Share Image
“Flora reached out and grabbed hold of William Spiver's hand, and he held on to her. It was as if he were drowning and she were standing on solid ground. According to TERRIBLE THINGS! drowning people were desperate, out of their minds with fear. In their panic they could pull you, the rescuer, under, if you weren't careful. So Flora… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share
“By now Flora was really cross. Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?” — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
“...these were the kind of idiotic words her parents spoke. And they said these the words to each other, even though they were pretending… — Kate DiCamillo FLORA ULYSSES THE ILLUMINATED ADVENTURES Copy Share Image
“she sipped tea and surrendered her afternoon to reading about the flora of Cairn Ocland. She wanted something to discuss with the man of… — Vivienne Savage Copy Share Image
“All of which Flora said with so much headlong vehemence as if she really believed it. There is not much doubt that when she… — Dickens, Charles Copy Share Image
“She drew back from his embrace so she could look into his eyes, her own swimming with tears. The uncertainty in her face nearly… — Sarah Mayberry Copy Share Image
“Her eyes held my grief, and her body gathered in my pain and knit it into herself as if she were an old marsh… — Kim Echlin Copy Share Image
“Dammit, Flora, why do you always ruin everything? A prophetic remark. I hope you picked up on that.” — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“She wanted to buckle, lie on her side and gasp like an eviscerated fish. She held her breath against it, but her mouth parted.… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“The thing was white, and huge, and swollen. Monstrous, thought Coraline, but also miserable.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In luggage claim at the Minneapolis airport, the guy came up to me and said, "Maybe you're wrong, maybe stories do matter." I wrote… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“If every babe who cried were still alive, well, then, the world would be a very crowded place, indeed.” — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Reader, you may ask this queston. In fact, you must ask this question. Is it ridiculous for a very small, sickly, big-eared mouse to… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
It wasn't until my fifth or sixth book where I realized I'm trying to do the same thing in every story I tell, which… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
[He] had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Everything about writing is hard for me except for that - the names pop into my head. That's one of the reasons why I… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Reading a story should be a fabulous, wonderful thing. The most important thing that parents can do for kids is to read with them… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“If you have no intention of loving or being loved then the whole journey is pointless” — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I feel like the luckiest person in the world to have found what I am supposed to do and to get to do it. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Everything, as you well know (having lived in this world long enough to have figured out a thing or two for yourself), cannot always… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image