Desperaux, " she said. He saw his name on her lips."I honor you, " whispered Desperaux. "I honor you.

The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him.

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.

And hope is like love...a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.

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.

The world is dark, and light is precious.Come closer, dear reader.You must trust me.I am telling you a story.

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

The April sun, weak but determined, shone through a castle window and from there squeezed itself through a small hole in the wall and placed one golden finger on the little mouse.

Once upon a time, " he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.

Stories are light.

Life is magnificent and vivacious, but it is also fugacious.

To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal behavior may then be attributed to the oath.

An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.

When a woman marries she belongs to another man; and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can say to her.

I don't kind of want to be known as a one-trick pony who just does the adult-alternative song once a year that makes it onto the radio and people sort of think it's nice.

Truth cannot be defeated.

Iggy. This is not a democracy," I said,(...)"It's a Maxocracy.

The question is never ‘Are you in a storm?’ The question is ‘Is Jesus in your boat?’

Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.

Nothing betrays imbecility so much as the being insensible of it.