Almost forgotten quotes...

Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.

Reader, you may ask this questeion; in fact, you must ask this question: Is it ridiculous for a very small, sickly, big-eared mouse to fall in love with a beautiful human princess named Pea? The answer is. . .yes.
Of course, it's ridiculous. Love is ridiculous. But love is also wonderful. And poserful. And Despereaux's love for the Princess Pea would prove, in time, to be all of these things: powerful, wonderful, and ridiculous.

He was, alas, a mouse deeply in love.

Reader, do you believe that there is such a thing as happily ever after? Or, like Despereaux, have you, too, begun to question the possibility of happy endings?

Because you, mouse, can tell Gregory a story. Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.

All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.

When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.

And hope is like love. . .a ridiculous, winderful, powerful thing.

What kind of world is it, Miss Louise, when princesses are taken from right under our noses and queens drop dead and we cannot even take comfort in soup?

"You are my knight," she said to him, "with a shining needle. And I am so glad you found me. Let's go upstairs. Let's go eat some soup."

The Dungeon, reader, stank. It stank of despair and suffering and hopelessness. Which is to say that the dungeon smelled of rats.