Kate DiCamillo Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• My favorite six letter word is always because it promises so much. My favorite five letter word is never because it insists on contradicting the promise. My favorite four letter word is once because it says it happened then. My favorite three letter word is yes because I’m just now learning to say it to my heart. My favorite two letter word is if because it makes all things possible like this: If not always If not never Then once. Yes.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Heart, Two, Promise

• 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 way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Heart, Broken, Together

  Kate DiCamillo (2009). “The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread”, p.116, Candlewick Press

• 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 lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman. Such was the fate of Chiaroscuro. His heart was broken. Picking up the spoon and placing it on his head, speaking of revenge, these things helped him to put his heart together again. But it was, alas, put together wrong.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Revenge, Heart, Fate

  Kate DiCamillo (2009). “The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread”, p.116, Candlewick Press

• Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll)

  Kate DiCamillo

  Heart, Dolls, Firsts

• Edward knew what it was like to say over and over again the names of those you had left behind. He knew what it was like to miss someone. And so he listened. And in his listening, his heart opened wide and then wider still. (page 103)

  Kate DiCamillo

  Missing Someone, Heart, Loss

  Kate DiCamillo (2009). “The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane”, p.92, Candlewick Press

• Pea was aware suddenly of how fragile her heart was, how much darkness was inside it, fighting, always, with the light. She did not like the rat. She would neverlike the rat, but she knew what she must do to save her own heart.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Heart, Fighting, Light

• Do you think everybody misses somebody? Like I miss my mama?” “Mmmm-hmmm,” said Gloria. She closed her eyes. “I believe, sometimes, that the whole world has an aching heart.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Believe, Heart, Eye

  Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, p.136, Candlewick Press

• 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.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Heart, Thinking, Broken

  Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, Candlewick Press

• Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Heart, Dark, Light

  Kate DiCamillo (2009). “The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread”, p.197, Candlewick Press

• Look at me, he said to her. His arms and legs jerked. Look at me. You got your wish. I have learned how to love. And it’s a terrible thing. I’m broken. My heart is broken. Help me. The old woman turned and hobbled away. Come back, thought Edward. Fix me

  Kate DiCamillo

  Heart, Broken, Wish

• 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 heart, to stop it from breaking in two. Despereaux, reader, spoke those words to save himself.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Father, Heart, Two

• There is a lot of love in him, a lot of love in his heart...And he is up there with no one and nothing to love. It is a bad thing to have love and no where to put it.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Heart, Bad Things

• 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 it.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Heart, Needs, Mouths

  Kate DiCamillo (2009). “The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread”, p.232, Candlewick Press

• The themes in my books, like in life, are about grace and redemption and you never know when they're going to show up and what form they're going to be in. Stories emerge from keeping your heart open to the people that cross in front of you or the dogs or the mice, and their ability to open you up and enrich your life.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Dog, Book, Heart

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Loneliness, Book, Heart

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• The book [The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] is about the fact that living in this world means that your heart is necessarily going to get broken. But the book also says that's okay. That's the only way to live a truly human life - with your heart getting broken - and eventually getting flooded with love.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Mean, Heart

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Heart, Kids

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

• It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Heart, Joy, Tasks

• I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Heart, Broken, How To Love

  Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, p.408, Candlewick Press

• I believe, sometimes, that the whole world has an aching heart.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Believe, Heart, World

  Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, p.136, Candlewick Press

• In the beginning of the book, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Edward is more enamored of himself than he is of anybody else. He's a very fine rabbit; he's been constructed incredibly well, and he has a wardrobe of amazing clothing. He's arrogant, and he doesn't care whether Abilene loves him or not. As the journey progresses, as he gets passed from hand to hand, he learns what it means to love. He gets more and more bedraggled, and his clothing is lost; yet he becomes finer in soul and heart than he was at the beginning of the journey.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Heart, Mean

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

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