“There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.”

“There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.”

“Despereaux," she whispered.And then she shouted it, "Despereaux!"Reader, nothing is sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.Nothing.”

“Men and boys always want to go fight. They are always looking for a reason to go to war. It is the saddest thing. They have this abiding notion that war is fun. And no history lesson will convince them differently.”

“Farewell is a word that, in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises nothing.”

“Perhaps this is a dream, said Madam La Vaughn from her chair. Perhaps the whole thing has been nothing but a dream.”

“The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.”