Despereaux Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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