Flora & Ulysses Quotes

“To Flora, the doorbell sounded like the electric chair. Not”
― Kate DiCamillo, Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

“HE WILL BECOME KNOWN TO THE WORLD AS ULYSSES! Holy”
― Kate DiCamillo, Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

“HE IS AN UNASSUMING JANITOR. BUT HE WILL DARE TO BATTLE THE DARKNESS OF THE UNIVERSE. DO YOU DOUBT HIM? DO NOT. ALFRED T. SLIPPER WILL LIVE TO FIGHT THE FORCES OF EVIL. HE WILL BECOME KNOWN TO THE WORLD AS INCANDESTO! Flora”
― Kate DiCamillo, Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

“A SUPERHERO SQUIRREL RESTED AT HER FEET, AND SO SHE WAS NOT LONELY AT ALL emblazoned”
― Kate DiCamillo, Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

“If he was dead, well, that was interesting, too.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

“Nothing would be easier without you, because you are everything, all of it — sprinkles, quarks, giant donuts, eggs sunny - side up — you are the ever - expanding universe to me.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

“Flora’s heart, the lonely, many-armed squid of it, flipped and flailed inside of her.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

“She liked the way the words sounded. She imagined them floating above her in a comic-strip bubble”
― Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

“died.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

“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.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

“cynic,”
― Kate DiCamillo, Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

“she were forced to describe it, she would say that it tasted exactly like squirrel: fuzzy, damp, slightly nutty. “Have you lost your”
― Kate DiCamillo, Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

“  Words for Flora Nothing would be easier without you, because you are everything, all of it — sprinkles, quarks, giant donuts, eggs sunny - side up — you are the ever - expanding universe to me.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

“Alfred T. Slipper was a janitor. Most of the time (often, in fact) they treated him with disdain. They had no idea of the astonishing acts of heroism, the blinding light, contained within his outward humdrum disguise.

Only Alfred's parakeet, Dolores, knew who he was and what he could do.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

“There is just no predicting what kind of sentences you might say, thought Flora. For instance, who would ever think you would shout, “You’re going to vacuum up that squirrel!”?”
― Kate DiCamillo, Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

“Words for Flora
Nothing
would be
easier withou
you,
because you
are
everything,
all of it-
sprinkles, quarks, giant
donuts,eggs sunny side up
you
are the ever expanding
universe
to me.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures