Gail Carson Levine Quotes

“That's funny, you're funny. I like you, I'm quite taken by you.”

“He -it- was a specter! I stepped back, stunned.”

“Oak, granite,
Lilies by the road,
Remember me?
I remember you.
Clouds brushing
Clover hills,
Remember me?
Sister, child,
Grown tall,
Remember me?
I remember you.”

“Daughter, we didn't need your note - or a prince's visit - to tell us you'd done nothing wrong. We know the daughter we raised. We fear for your future, but never for your character. You take our love and our trust wherever you wander.
Father.”

“In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.”

“And so, with laughter and love, we lived happily ever after.”

“Father asks frequently in his letters whether I fancy any Ayorthaian young lady or any in our acquaintance at home. I say no I suppose I'm confessing another fault: pride. I don't want him to know that I love if my affections are not returned”

“There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.”

“I never met a word I didn't love”

“Step follows step,
Hope follows Courage,
Set your face towards danger,
Set your heart on victory.”

“It is helpful to know the proper way to behave, so one can decide whether or not to be proper.”

“When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you”

“I want to be with you forever and beyond…”

“I was born singing. Most babies cry, I sang an aria.”

“When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings.”

“Things change, people change, but that doesn't mean you should forget the past.”

“You're Only the fairest when your fairest to yourself”

“She asks why I like her.
Might as well ask
Why I breathe.
Maybe tomorrow I won't
Breathe or like her
Anymore.
Maybe tomorrow the tides
Will stop.
Maybe tomorrow will bring
No more rainbows.
Maybe tomorrow
She will stop
Asking useless questions.”

“I trust you to find the good in me, but the bad I must be sure you don't overlook.”

“The Writer's Oath

I promise solemnly:

1. to write as often and as much as I can,

2. to respect my writing self, and

3. to nurture the writing of others.

I accept these responsibilities and shall honor them always.”

“Fate… may… be… thwarted.”

“If I couldn't sleep, I could read.”

“No, I won't marry you. I won't do it. No one can force me.”

“He put his hand on my waist, and my heart began to pound, a rougher rhythm than the music. I held my skirt. Our free hands met. His felt warm and comforting and unsettling and bewildering--all at once.”

“Luck was with me. I saw no spiders.
Luck was against me. I saw no specters.”

“I shan't marry a prince!”

“Although we didn't invite Lucinda, she arrived anyway-with a gift.
"No need," Char and I chimed together.
"Remember when you were a squirrel," Mandy said.”

“I was no hero. The dearest wishes of my heart were for safety and tranquility. The world was a perilous place, wrong for the likes of me.”

“Would you favor me with a dance?" Over all the others I was his choice! I curtsied, and he took my hand. Our hands knew each other. Char looked at me, startled. "Have we met before, Lady?”

“He is flawless, without a blemish. Majesic… muscular.”

“To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph entirely.”

“Voices and faces aren't manifestations
of good or bad.”

“Climb the day, Drop your dreams, Possess the day.”

“I wonder how Admat can be everywhere. Is he in my sandal? Or is he my sandal itself? Why would a god bother to be a sandal? Does he wear shoes or sandals himself, invisible ones?”

“I'm solitary as a pulled tooth,
Lonely as an unwelcome truth,
Lost as a minnow out of school,
A genius in a crop of fools.”