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Book: Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
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  1. Kate DiCamillo _ Flora & Ulysses: The

    When the other Dr. Meescham was alive and I could not sleep, do you know what he would do for me? This man would put on his slippers and he would go out into the kitchen and he would fix for me sardines and crackers. You know sardines? Little fishes in a can. He would put these little fishes onto crackers for me, and then I would hear him coming back down the hallway, carrying the sardines and humming, returning to me. Such tenderness. To have someone get out of bed and bring you little fishes and sit with you as you eat them in the dark of the night. To hum to you. This is love.
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  2. Kate DiCamillo _ Flora & Ulysses: The

    Flora's heart, the lonely, many-armed squid of it, flipped and flailed inside her.
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  3. Kate DiCamillo _ Flora & Ulysses: The

    When I was a girl in Blundermeecen we wondered always if we would see each other again. Each day was uncertain. So, to say good-bye to someone was uncertain, too. Would you see them again? Who could say? Blundermeecen was a place of dark secrets, unmarked graves, terrible curses. Trolls were everywhere! So we said good-bye to each other the best way we could. We said: I promise to always turn back toward you.
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  4. Kate DiCamillo _ Flora & Ulysses: The

    The words were good words, Ulysses felt, maybe even great words, but the list was very incomplete. He was just getting started. The words needed to be arranged, fussed with, put in the order of his heart.
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  5. Kate DiCamillo _ Flora & Ulysses: The

    That squid is a villain," said Flora out loud. "He needs to be vanquished. He's eating a boat. And he's going to eat all of the people on the boat.""Yes, well, loneliness makes us do terrible things," said Dr. Meescham. "And that is why the picture is there, to remind me of this. Also, because the other Dr. Meescham painted it when he was young and joyful."Good grief, thought Flora. What did he paint when he was old and depressed?
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  6. Kate DiCamillo _ Flora & Ulysses: The

    I love your round head,the brilliant green,the watching blue,these letters,this world, you.I am very, very hungry.
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  7. Kate DiCamillo _ Flora & Ulysses: The

    Holy unanticipated occurrences!
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  8. Kate DiCamillo _ Flora & Ulysses: The

    But she couldn't help it. She did hope. She was hoping. She had been hoping all along.
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  9. Kate DiCamillo _ Flora & Ulysses: The

    Who can say what astonishments are hidden inside the most mundane being?
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  10. Kate DiCamillo _ Flora & Ulysses: The

    A squirrel flies in," said Dr. Meescham. "This I did not expect at all. It is what I love about life, that things happen which I do not expect. When I was a girl in Blundermeecen, we left the window open for this very reason, even in the winter. We did it because we believed something wonderful might make its way to us through the open window. Did wonderful things find us? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. But tonight it has happened! Something wonderful!" Dr. Meescham clapped her hands. "A window has been left open. A squirrel flies in the window. The heart of an old woman rejoices!"
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  11. Kate DiCamillo _ Flora & Ulysses: The

    Pascal," said Dr. Meescham, "had it that since it could not be proven whether God existed, one might as well believe that he did, because there was everything to gain by believing and nothing to lose. This is how it is for me. What do I lose if I choose to believe? Nothing!""Take this squirrel, for instance. Ulysses. Do I believe he can type poetry? Sure, I do believe it. There is much more beauty in the world if I believe such a thing is possible.
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  12. Kate DiCamillo _ Flora & Ulysses: The

    That was the thing about tragedy. It was just sitting there, keeping you company, waiting. And you had absolutely no idea.
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