Despereaux Quotes

No one cared what she wanted. No one had ever cared. And perhaps, worst of all, no one ever would care.

Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl?The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no one.

This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.

Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.

Despereaux was reading the story out loud to himself. He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end...