The Tale of Despereaux (2008)

Sigourney Weaver: Narrator

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Quotes 

• Narrator : Okay, remember when we told you how, once upon a time, there was this brave little mouse? Well, If you know anything about fairy tales, you know that a hero doesn't appear until the world really needs one.

• Narrator : When your heart breaks it can grow back crooked. It grows back twisted and gnarled and hard.

• Narrator : Once upon a time, there was a brave, little mouse who loved honor and justice and always told the truth.

  [Camera zooms in and we see a rat named Roscuro] 

  Narrator : No, that's not him. That's a rat. And anyone who knows anything, knows there is a big difference between a mouse and a rat. First of all, rats hate the light.

  [Roscuro climbs on a barrel and looks at the sun] 

  Narrator : They spend their lives in the darkness. Also terrify the people which is why they're slinking and cover all the time.

  [Roscuro goes to near of a sailor] 

  Narrator : And as far as telling the truth as concerned, well, that is impossible, because as everyone knows a rat can't talk.

  [Roscuro starts to talk] 

  Roscuro : Tell me that thing again, please.

  Pietro : Come on!

  Roscuro : Tell me one more time and I won't ask you ever again, I swear.

  Pietro : Fine. We are headed to Dor, one of the most magical places in the whole world.

  Roscuro : No, that's not what you said before. You know, every place has something special and in Dor, it's "the soup".

• Narrator : The story said she was a prisoner but that wasn't totally true because she had hope and whenever you have hope, you're never really anybody's prisoner.

• Narrator : [voiceover]  I could say they lived happily ever after, but what's the fun in that?

• Narrator : So sometimes it doesn't take much for your dreams to come true, you just have to be able to see it that way.

• Narrator : Of course, destiny is a funny thing. We go out to meet it and we don't always know that we are.

• Narrator : In fact, you can have a good heart and not even know it.

• Roscuro : Tell me that story. About the princess. Tell me what she looked like.

  Despereaux : Well, she was...

  Roscuro : Was she angry?

  Despereaux : No. No, not at all. Her heart was full of longing.

  Roscuro : What's longing?

  Narrator : And that's how a friendship is born. Over the next few weeks, he told Roscuro everything he knew about loyalty and honor and chivalry and courage. He told him about the Princess, and where her longing came from. That she missed the rain and the soup and even the rats.

  Roscuro : Even the rats?

  Narrator : He told him about their code of honor, about his noble quest, about duty and loyalty. And there, in the darkness of the cellar, two knights pledged devotion to a princess who was trapped inside a castle. Trapped in a life full of pain and longing. Even if no one could tell.

• Narrator : Ok, remember when we said that grief is a strongest thing a person can feel? Well, it isn't. It's forgiveness. Because a single act of forgiveness can change everything.

  Roscuro : [Roscuro drops the bone]  No!

  Botticelli : What?

  Roscuro : No.

  Botticelli : You worthless little...!

  [rings the gong]