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The Magician's Elephant QUOTES

The Magician's Elephant QUOTES

1 " It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it. "

― Kate DiCamillo , The Magician's Elephant

2 " Magic is always impossible. It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That's why it is magic. "

― Kate DiCamillo , The Magician's Elephant

3 " What is?', he said. 'What if?' is a question that belongs to magic. "

― Kate DiCamillo , The Magician's Elephant

4 " He felt a wonderful certainty. The impossible, he thought, the impossible is about to happen again. "

― Kate DiCamillo , The Magician's Elephant

5 " He knew how to construct a song out of the nothing of day-to-day life and how to sing that nothing into a song so beautiful that it could sustain the vision of a whole and better world. "

― Kate DiCamillo , The Magician's Elephant

6 " It is important that you say what you mean to say. Time is too short. You must speak the words that matter. "

― Kate DiCamillo , The Magician's Elephant

7 " Magic is always impossible.... It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That is why it's magic. "

― Kate DiCamillo , The Magician's Elephant

8 " How will the world change if we do not question it? "

― Kate DiCamillo , The Magician's Elephant

9 " That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing. "

― Kate DiCamillo , The Magician's Elephant

10 " Have you, in truth, ever seen something so heartbreakingly lovely? What are we to make of a world where stars shine bright in the midst of so much darkness and gloom? "

― Kate DiCamillo , The Magician's Elephant

11 " There," she said. She rocked him back and forth. "There, you foolish, beautiful boy who wants to change the world. There, there. And who could keep from loving you? Who could keep from loving a boy so brave and true? "

― Kate DiCamillo , The Magician's Elephant

12 " Life was so short; so many beautiful things slipped away. "

― Kate DiCamillo , The Magician's Elephant

13 " We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it? "

― Kate DiCamillo , The Magician's Elephant

14 " What was it like... to have someone who knew you would always return and who welcomed you with open arms? "

― Kate DiCamillo , The Magician's Elephant

15 " Longing is not always a reciprocal thing. "

― Kate DiCamillo , The Magician's Elephant

16 " The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing. "

― Kate DiCamillo , The Magician's Elephant

17 " [He] had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers. "

― Kate DiCamillo , The Magician's Elephant

18 " There is a lot of love in him, a lot of love in his heart... And he is up there with no one and nothing to love. It is a bad thing to have love and no where to put it. "

― Kate DiCamillo , The Magician's Elephant

19 " She was working to remind herself of who she was. She was working to remember that somewhere in another place entirely she was known and loved. "

― Kate DiCamillo , The Magician's Elephant

20 " Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all. "

― Kate DiCamillo , The Magician's Elephant