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Maurice Sendak Quotes

Six of the best book quotes from Maurice Sendak
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“Oh, please don’t go—we’ll eat you up—we love you so!”
Maurice Sendak
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Where the Wild Things Are
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Max
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Wild Things
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love
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“And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.”
Maurice Sendak
author
Where the Wild Things Are
book
Max
character
love
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loneliness
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“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”
Maurice Sendak
author
Where the Wild Things Are
book
Max
character
adventures
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“And now,” cried Max, “let the wild rumpus start!”
Maurice Sendak
author
Where the Wild Things Are
book
Max
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“And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.”
Maurice Sendak
author
Where the Wild Things Are
book
Wild Things
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“Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.”
Maurice Sendak
author
Where the Wild Things Are
book
Max
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