The Beatryce Prophecy
Kate DiCamillo
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Nothing is more terrifying to evil than joy.”
“We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong. We shall all, in the end, find our way home.”
“What world is this I now inhabit, and how shall I live in it?”
“What is it to know that people will come searching for you? Everything.”
“What does it mean to be brave? This was a question Brother Edik asked himself as he walked through the dark woods with Jack Dory and Cannoc and Answelica. To be brave is to not turn away. To be brave is to go forward. To be brave is to love.”
“How much could a heart hold? ... The goat was in his heart, too. Seemingly, the heart could hold an untold amount of things--letters and people and goats and bees. Seemingly, there was no limit to what it could contain.”
“There was, truly no place for him. The home of his childhood was long gone, and it had never been his home, even when he was a child. His mother had said to him, "Do not anger your father. Try to do as he says. Try to be who he wants you to be." But he had not known how to do that, had he? He still did not know how to do that. He knew, only, how to be himself. And shouldn't home be the place where you are allowed to be yourself, loved as yourself?”
“How did anybody say goodbye to someone they loved? But that was what the world demanded, wasn’t it? Again and again, the world insisted upon betrayals, goodbyes. How could anyone bear it?”
“We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong, said the blackbird. We shall all, in the end, find our way home, intoned the bird.”
“To be brave is to not turn away. To be brave is to go forward. To be brave is to love.”
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quest, dark-woods, lost, joy, love, to-be-brave, courage, bravery, hope, life, abuse, home, presence, expectations, parenting, awareness, heart
