The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

   1. But answer me:

  how can a story end happily if there is no love?
  — Kate DiCamillo, *The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

  * 2. If you don't intend to love or be loved, then the whole journey of life is meaningless.
  — Kate DiCamillo, *The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane*

  3. Someone will come. Someone will come to pick you up. But first you must open your heart.
  — Kate DiCamillo, *The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane*

  4. I find it more enjoyable to get lost with someone else's help.
  — Kate DiCamillo, *The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane*

  5. It's a feeling that nothing matters anymore, and nothing matters anymore.
  — Kate DiCamillo, *The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane*


  6. More important than loss is the memory that cannot be lost.
  — Kate DiCamillo, *The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

  * 7. The heart breaks again and again, and life continues in its brokenness. You must make your way through the darkness, the ever-deepening darkness, and keep going.
  — Kate DiCamillo, *The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

  * 8. You must be full of hope. You must know who will love you, and who you will love next.
  — Kate DiCamillo, *The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

  * 9. Edward looked up at the sky full of stars. He began to name the constellations.
  Edward thought, how many times had he parted without a chance to say goodbye?
  Something deep inside him ached.
  He wanted to cry.
  — Kate DiCamillo, *The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

  * 10. I've learned how to love, and it's a cruel thing. It hurts, my heart aches so much, help me.
  —The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

  11. “I have been loved,” said Edward. “I was loved by a little girl named Abilene. I was loved by a fisherman and his wife, and by a tramp and his dog. I was loved by a harmonica-playing boy and a dead girl. Don’t talk to me about love,” he said. “I know love.”
  —Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

  12. Once upon a time, there was a little porcelain rabbit who was loved by a little girl.
  Once upon a time, there was a little porcelain rabbit who fell in love with a little girl and watched her die.
  The little rabbit vowed never to fall in love again.
  Once upon a time, oh, wonderful once upon a time, there was a little rabbit who found his way home.
  —The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

  13. Edward knew what it felt like to say the names of those you had abandoned over and over again. He knew what it felt like to miss someone. So he listened. And as he listened, his heart opened, and opened wider and wider.
  —Kate DiCamillo, *The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane*

  14. He kept his eyes open the whole time, not because he was brave, but because he had no other choice.
  —Kate DiCamillo, *The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane*

  15. It's too late. I'm just a hollow rabbit.
  —Kate DiCamillo, *The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

  * 16. "I was loved too," Edward told the stars. "
  Is that so?" the stars said. "What does that have to do with you being all alone here now?"
  —Kate DiCamillo, *The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane*

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