"There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it."

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Source : Kate DiCamillo (2009). “Because of Winn-Dixie”, p.159, Candlewick Press

Kate DiCamillo

#Moving On Quotes #Letting Go Quotes #Leaving Quotes

“Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.”
“It is a bit more challenging for the simple fact that now the stories I am writing are relying more on my imagination than on facts, more on research than on memory; so it is basically a slower writing process, more reading, more exploring. On the other hand, this approach is a little bit relieving too, since many times while writing [How the Soldieer Repairs the Gramophone] I felt too close and equal to my character.”
“The fighting was fierce and lasted for the greater part of a day; blood ran in rivers.”
“I'm a health-food junkie, so all of my food is a splurge, money-wise!”
“If a stick is floating down a river and gets stuck, it doesn't need years of therapy. It just needs a little nudge and then it will get back into the flow of the river.”
“I don't want to be more famous. I enjoy making movies but I enjoy my private life too. As an actor, to do it once in my lifetime I think would be a good experience. But I'll just leave it to fate. I had a chance to work with Ang Lee because of fate.”
“When you understand that life is a test, you realize that nothing is insignificant in your life.”
“I saw a picture of Elvis in blue lame, and thought that if I could recreate that suit and walk down the King's Road in it, someone might pick me up and take me off on a crazy adventure.”

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