Miraculous Journey Of Edward Tulane Quotes

• 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

  Book, Mean, Heart

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• 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

  Real, Journey, Expression

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• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began with a friend giving me a rabbit doll - forgive me, Edward, for using that word; he doesn't like "doll" - for Christmas. I said, "Oh, he's lovely, what's his name?" And she said, "Edward." And a few days after I received the rabbit, who was dressed very handsomely in Edwardian kind of clothes, I saw him stripped of his finery and face down on the bottom of the ocean floor. Why? I don't know. But that's where his story began in my head.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Ocean, Journey, Names

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

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Journey, Way

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

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• 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

  Book, Heart, Mean

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

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