Body Quote 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.

— Kate DiCamillo

“The mouse man grins and stuffs his mouth with cake. His wrists are too small for some of his bracelets, and when one of…

— Zoraida Córdova

I have terrible nightmares, you know. Every night when I come home from a long day’s dying, I take off my skin and lay…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Farewell” is not the word that you would like to hear from your mother as you are being led to the dungeon by 2…

— Kate DiCamillo

The Tale of Despereaux is the story of an unlikely hero, a mouse, who falls in love with a princess and then must save…

— Kate DiCamillo

So here I am, sending a two-ounce mouse down into a dungeon with a sewing needle to save a human princess, and I don't…

— Kate DiCamillo

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

“Yes," said Cook. That is soup that you are smelling. The princess, not that you would know or care, is missing, bless her goodhearted…

— Kate DiCamillo

There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by…

— Kate DiCamillo

Three blind mice walk into a pub. But they are unaware of their surroundings, so to derive humour from it would be exploitative.

— Bill Bailey

With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though…

— Graham Greene

When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?

— Voltaire