I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.

Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.

There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by it.

You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.

They were always on the move.But in truth said bull we are all going nowhere

Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.

I was visiting my mother in Florida when the September 11, 2001 attacks happened. I was working on The Tale of Despereaux at that point. I had already gone into writing it with a great deal of trepidation and fear, and then this God-awful thing happens and it was really hard to even get back home to Minneapolis.