Ferris Quotes

“It's all inconvenience...And then, suddenly it's over. And you find yourself thinking that you wouldn't mind a little inconvenience.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Ferris

“Furnace. “Yes, ma’am,” said Ferris again. “Did she do that to your hair?” said Miss Furnace. There had been so much going on—failing hearts and talking ghosts, dead husbands and stolen pliers, police reports and attempted bank robberies—that Ferris had forgotten about her hair. She put a hand up and touched its frizzy strangeness. “Yes, ma’am,” she said. “She did.” “It looks ridiculous,” said Miss Furnace. “Ma’am,” said Billy Jackson in an extremely polite voice, “what we need is forty taper candles.” “No one needs forty taper candles,” said Miss Furnace. “We do,” said Ferris. “Charisse does.” “Charisse,” said Miss Furnace. She said the name the way a snake might say it if a snake owned a dime store and could speak. “You may tell Charisse that the world, much as she supposes it to be, is not her oyster.” “Okay,” said Ferris, even though she wasn’t sure what Miss Furnace was talking about. Ferris’s father had said to her that day six years ago when they sat eating their grilled cheese sandwiches in Furnace Dime that there were some people who were reluctant to step foot in the great river of life. He had nodded in the direction of Miss Furnace. “These people,” he said, “are afraid to love. Loving someone takes a whole lot of courage. Some people just aren’t up to the task.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Ferris

“What happened if someone just kept diminishing? What happened if the diminishment never stopped?”
― Kate DiCamillo, Ferris

“Loving someone takes a whole lot of courage. Some people just aren't up to the task.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Ferris

“I don't understand any of it. I truly don't. The world is a mystery to me. But yet here we are, and our hearts keep on beating. They keep wanting things, don't they?”
― Kate DiCamillo, Ferris

“You have to insist on being yourself. Do not let the world tell you who you are. Rather, tell the world who you are.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Ferris

“Ferris’s mother was practical. She was a pragmatist. She taught high school math. “Attempting to teach math to a roomful of teenagers on a daily basis leaves no room for romantic notions,” her mother often said. “I am a pragmatist through and through.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Ferris

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― Kate DiCamillo, Ferris