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Maurice Sendak Quotes
Six of the best book quotes from Maurice Sendak
#1
“Oh, please don’t go—we’ll eat you up—we love you so!”
author
Maurice Sendak
book
Where the Wild Things Are
characters
Wild Things
Max
concept
love
#2
“And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.”
author
Maurice Sendak
book
Where the Wild Things Are
character
Max
concepts
love
loneliness
#3
“And [he] sailed back over a year
and in and out of weeks
and through a day
and into the night of his very own room
where he found his supper waiting for him
and it was still hot”
author
Maurice Sendak
book
Where the Wild Things Are
character
Max
concept
adventures
#4
“And now,” cried Max, “let the wild rumpus start!”
author
Maurice Sendak
book
Where the Wild Things Are
character
Max
#5
“And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.”
author
Maurice Sendak
book
Where the Wild Things Are
character
Wild Things
#6
“Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.”
author
Maurice Sendak
book
Where the Wild Things Are
character
Max
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