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The Most Very Honored Head Mouse
The threadmaster, a mouse named Hovis, is the castle mouse with the ceremonial role of protecting the supposedly sacred spool of red thread and fastening red thread around condemned mice’s necks before they’re sent to the dungeon. Hovis acts like he takes his job seriously, but he’s the only mouse who gives Despereaux any hope that things might turn out okay when Despereaux is banished to the dungeon. He tells Despereaux to be brave for the Princess Pea, and later, he agrees to help Despereaux in his quest to return to the dungeon and rescue the princess.
The Threadmaster/Hovis Quotes in The Tale of Despereaux
The The Tale of Despereaux quotes below are all either spoken by The Threadmaster/Hovis or refer to The Threadmaster/Hovis. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 11
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How, he wondered, had things gone so terribly wrong? Wasn’t it a good thing to love? In the story in the book, love was a very good thing. Because the knight loved the fair maiden, he was able to rescue her. They lived happily ever after. It said so. In the book. They were the last words on the page. Happily ever after. Despereaux was certain that he had read exactly those words time and time again.
Lying on the floor with the drum beating and the mice shouting and the threadmaster calling out, “Make way, make way,” Despereaux had a sudden, chilling thought: Had some other mouse eaten the words that spoke the truth? Did the knight and the fair maiden really not live happily ever after?
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The Threadmaster/Hovis Quotes in The Tale of Despereaux
The The Tale of Despereaux quotes below are all either spoken by The Threadmaster/Hovis or refer to The Threadmaster/Hovis. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 11
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How, he wondered, had things gone so terribly wrong? Wasn’t it a good thing to love? In the story in the book, love was a very good thing. Because the knight loved the fair maiden, he was able to rescue her. They lived happily ever after. It said so. In the book. They were the last words on the page. Happily ever after. Despereaux was certain that he had read exactly those words time and time again.
Lying on the floor with the drum beating and the mice shouting and the threadmaster calling out, “Make way, make way,” Despereaux had a sudden, chilling thought: Had some other mouse eaten the words that spoke the truth? Did the knight and the fair maiden really not live happily ever after?
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