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“And I have some poetry that I would like to recite to you in honor of the recent, um, transformations in your life.” Tootie put a hand on her chest. “This is Rilke,” she said. “‘You, sent out beyond your recall, / go to the limits of your longing. / Embody me. / Flare up like flame / and make big shadows I can move in.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

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“Flora had decided that this was part of the reason her parents had divorced. Not the noise of the writing, but the writing itself. Specifically, the writing of romance. Flora”
― Kate DiCamillo, Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

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“Flora hated the phrase “correct me if I’m wrong.” In her experience, people only said it when they knew they were right.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

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“Do not hope; instead, observe” were words that Flora, as a cynic, had found useful in the extreme. She repeated them to herself a lot.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

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“The Criminal Element spoke often, and passionately, about the nefarious activities that every human being is capable of. Not only did it insist that the human heart was dark beyond all reckoning; it also likened the heart to a river. And further, it said, "If we are not careful, that river can carry us along in its hidden currents of want and anger and need, and transform each of us into the very criminal we fear.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

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