Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.

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

He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together happily ever after.

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.

Go home and read to your adult. We forget how much we love to be read to.

You don't realize what you're going to get, and you can't prepare yourself for it.

Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful.