Quote by Kate DiCamillo

“Why would you save me? Because you, mouse, can tell Gregory a story. Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.…

— Kate DiCamillo

“Because you, mouse, can tell Gregory a story. Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell…

— Kate DiCamillo

“Despereaux was reading the story out loud to himself. He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end...”

— Kate DiCamillo

Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.

— Kate DiCamillo

“He was a good storyteller, but he told the kind of stories that made children run away from the village and adults look for…

— Sorin Suciu

“You only need one ray of light to chase all the shadows away,” she said to him once, when he asked her why she…

— Fredrik Backman

“I'm not sure that my existence will be made any brighter by hearing about others who live in darkness. But I suppose I could…

— Jonas Jonasson

“I wonder if that's the perennial story of writers: you find the true light, you lose the true light, you find it again. And…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“They lived happily ever after. It said so. In the book. They were the last words on the page. Happily ever after. Despereaux was…

— Kate DiCamillo

“And he told stories about the stars above, about the earth below. He told them to make the night pass, and also because his…

— Jean Giono

“Why at the beginning of things is there always light? Dorrigo Evans' earliest memories were of sun flooding a church hall in which he…

— Richard Flanagan

“God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me specifically into the story, and He put us in specifically with the sunsets…

— Donald Miller