“The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.”
― The Tale of Despereaux
― The Tale of Despereaux
“Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.”
― The Tale of Despereaux
― The Tale of Despereaux
“Say it, reader. Say the word 'quest' out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full of wonder, so full of hope.”
― The Tale of Despereaux
― The Tale of Despereaux
“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.”
― The Tale of Despereaux
― The Tale of Despereaux
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