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Maurice Sendak Quotes

Six of the best book quotes from Maurice Sendak
  1. #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 ThingsMax
    concept
    love
  2. #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
    loveloneliness
  3. #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. #4
    “And now,” cried Max, “let the wild rumpus start!”
    author
    Maurice Sendak
    book
    Where the Wild Things Are
    character
    Max
  5. #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. #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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