Edward Tulane Quotes:

SEASONS PASSED, FALL AND WINTER and spring and summer. Leaves blew in through the open door of Lucius Clarke’s shop, and rain, and the green outrageous hopeful light of spring. People came and went, grandmothers and doll collectors and little girls with their mothers. Edward Tulane waited. The seasons turned into years. Edward Tulane waited. He repeated the old doll’s words over and over until they wore a smooth groove of hope in his brain: Someone will come; someone will come for you.

- Kate DiCamillo

source: Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, p.446, Candlewick Press

topic: Summer, Girl, Mother, Edward Tulane, Fall And Winter

It's a weird kind of disconnect that this whole story [he Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] grew around a real doll of mine, and here he is, with his "Edward" expression on his face. It's kind of reality bumping into fantasy.

- Kate DiCamillo

source: Source: www.teachingbooks.net

topic: Real, Journey, Expression, Miraculous Journey Of Edward Tulane, Edward Tulane

In the beginning of the book, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Edward is more enamored of himself than he is of anybody else. He's a very fine rabbit; he's been constructed incredibly well, and he has a wardrobe of amazing clothing. He's arrogant, and he doesn't care whether Abilene loves him or not. As the journey progresses, as he gets passed from hand to hand, he learns what it means to love. He gets more and more bedraggled, and his clothing is lost; yet he becomes finer in soul and heart than he was at the beginning of the journey.

- Kate DiCamillo

source: TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

topic: Book, Heart, Mean, Miraculous Journey Of Edward Tulane, Edward Tulane

The book [The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] is about the fact that living in this world means that your heart is necessarily going to get broken. But the book also says that's okay. That's the only way to live a truly human life - with your heart getting broken - and eventually getting flooded with love.

- Kate DiCamillo

source: Source: www.teachingbooks.net

topic: Book, Mean, Heart, Miraculous Journey Of Edward Tulane, Edward Tulane

The image I had was very clear, and so in that way The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began like other books.

- Kate DiCamillo

source: TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

topic: Book, Journey, Way, Miraculous Journey Of Edward Tulane, Edward Tulane