Gail Carson Levine Quotes

A library is infinity under a roof.

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.

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

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

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

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

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.

My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it's loosely based on my father's childhood in an orphanage.

Who judges the judge who judges wrong?

I want to be with you forever and beyond.

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

I never met a word I didn't love

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

I wished she’d never stop squeezing me. I wished I could spend the rest of my life as a child, being slightly crushed by someone who loved me.

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.

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.

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?

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

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?

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.

Kisses were better than potions.

When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings.

I love having written. Sometimes I love writing. I love to revise. Revising is my favorite part of writing.

I shan't marry a prince!

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

He is flawless, without a blemish. Majesic . . . muscular.

No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden. My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead.

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

He bowed. 'The young lady must not dance alone.

Fate...may...be...thwarted.

To pretend I was sliding down the stair rail." He laughed again. " You should have done it. I would have caught you at the bottom.

If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em.

I don't wait for inspiration. Writing is my job.

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.

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

Crying is part of the adventure.

I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.

I'm more interested in plot than theme, but I hope my values find their way into my stories: kindness, sympathy, effort, and humor!

Perhaps we can come here together someday. By the way, you're a month older than the last time I saw you. Are you still too young to marry.

that the book is really good. and theres a prince in it to.

You're Only the fairest when your fairest to yourself

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.

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

The fast fliers are not disgraced." Queen Ree reached up for the missing tiara. "She saved us, but she's with him now." Vidia was complicated, two fairies in one, a loyal traitor.

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

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

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

I want to be with you forever and beyond...

No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden.My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead.

Sorcerers believe that an action taken for the right reasons has an unreasonable chance of success.