Quotes from The Tiger Rising

“Her words sounded the way all those things made him feel, as if the world, the real world, had been punched through, so that he could see something wonderful and dazzling on the other side of it.”
― Kate DiCamillo, quote from The Tiger Rising

“I’m from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,” Sistine said, “home of the Liberty Bell, and I hate the South because the people in it are ignorant. And I’m not staying here in Lister. My father is coming to get me next week.” She looked around the room defiantly. “Well,” said Mrs. Soames, “thank you very much for introducing yourself, Sistine Bailey. You may take your seat before you put your foot in your mouth any farther.” The”
― Kate DiCamillo, quote from The Tiger Rising

“cock his head this way and that. Called him Cricket, on”
― Kate DiCamillo, quote from The Tiger Rising

“Did Rob make it?” Sistine asked Willie May. “He did,” said Willie May. “It looks alive. Is it like your bird that you let go?”
― Kate DiCamillo, quote from The Tiger Rising

“As they walked back to the Kentucky Star, Rob thought about what Willie May had said about the tiger rising on up. It reminded him of what she had said about his sadness needing to rise up. And when he thought about the two things together, the tiger and his sadness, the truth circled over and above him and then came and landed lightly on his shoulder. He knew what he had to do.”
― Kate DiCamillo, quote from The Tiger Rising

“He must, he realized, know somewhere, deep inside him, more things than he had ever dreamed of.”
― Kate DiCamillo, quote from The Tiger Rising

“Hey, disease boy!” Norton shouted. “We know what you got. It’s called”
― Kate DiCamillo, quote from The Tiger Rising

“tiger eating Norton and Billy Threemonger and then spitting out their bones.”
― Kate DiCamillo, quote from The Tiger Rising

“The three of them walked through the woods in silence. Sistine and Rob chewed Eight Ball gum,”
― Kate DiCamillo, quote from The Tiger Rising

“How come you don’t have a phone?” Rob shrugged. “Ain’t got nobody to call,”
― Kate DiCamillo, quote from The Tiger Rising

“them back. Sometimes, I hit them first.” “Oh,”
― Kate DiCamillo, quote from The Tiger Rising

“And Rob knew then that he had picked the right person to tell.”
― Kate DiCamillo, quote from The Tiger Rising

“Rob sat out on the curb in front of the motel room and waited for Sistine to come back from using the phone.”
― Kate DiCamillo, quote from The Tiger Rising

“Rob was dismayed to see that she was still wearing his shirt and jeans.”
― Kate DiCamillo, quote from The Tiger Rising

About the author

Popular quotes

“I think… that love encompasses the experience of the possible transition from the pure randomness of chance to a state that has universal value. Starting out from something that is simply an
encounter, a trifle, you learn that you can experience the world on the basis of difference and not only in terms of identity. And you can even be tested and suffer in the process. In today’s world, it is generally thought that individuals only pursue their own self-interest. Love is an antidote to that. Provided it isn’t conceived only as an exchange of mutual favours, or isn’t calculated way in advance as a profitable investment, love really is a unique trust placed in chance. It takes us into key areas of the experience of what is difference and, essentially, leads to the idea that you can experience the world from the perspective of difference. In this respect it has universal implications: it is an individual experience of potential universality, and is thus central to philosophy, as Plato was the first to intuit.”
― Alain Badiou, quote from In Praise of Love

“At a wat temple in the mountains of Northern Thailand, a Buddhist teacher once reminded me of a simple truth. "Life," he said, "is offered as a means of self-expression, only giving us what we seek when we listen to the
heart." The highest forms of this expression are acts of kindness.”
― Michael Newton, quote from Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives

“Let’s sit here in hard truth and easy beauty, in the tensions of the Now and the Not Yet of the Kingdom of God, and let us discover how we can disagree beautifully.”
― Sarah Bessey, quote from Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women

“I think we all need to remember our capacity for empathy and through education, stretch ourselves to imagine what it is like to be in someone else’s shoes and wish every person the same pair of shoes that we would like to wear.”
― Zlata Filipović, quote from Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo

“it’s a long race and you can always outwork talent in the end”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Boy21

Interesting books

About BookQuoters

BookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.

We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, and choose the ones that are most thought-provoking. Each quote represents a book that is interesting, well written and has potential to enhance the reader’s life. We also accept submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing to the BookQuoters community.

Founded in 2023, BookQuoters has quickly become a large and vibrant community of people who share an affinity for books. Books are seen by some as a throwback to a previous world; conversely, gleaning the main ideas of a book via a quote or a quick summary is typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. We feel that we have the best of both worlds at BookQuoters; we read books cover-to-cover but offer you some of the highlights. We hope you’ll join us.