Once upon a time,” he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.
—Kate DiCamillo
No one cared what she wanted. No one had ever cared. And perhaps, worst of all, no one ever would care.
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 one.
Despereaux was reading the story out loud to himself. He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end…
Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.
This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.
the story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty have a certain value, too, I suppose. Everything, as you well know (having lived in...
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