Quotes from Gail Carson Levine

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

Crying is part of the adventure

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.

Food for thought requires a mind with teeth.

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

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

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

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.

Kisses were better than potions.

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.

I wished I could spend the rest of my life... being slightly crushed by someone who loved me.

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 rode all day. I cried all night. The moon didn't glow. The sun didn't rise. A comet blazed Between my eyes. West and South, Wind and rain. Every way is Just the same. Pray give me a box To hide inside. Pray give me a spade To dig my own grave.

I became simply a pair of eyes, staring through my mask at Char. I needed no ears because I was too far off to hear his voice, no words because I was too distant for speech, and no thoughts - those I saved for later. He bent his head. I loved the hairs on the nape of his neck. He moved his lips. I admired their changing shape. He clasped his hand. I blessed his fingers. Once, the power of my gaze drew his eyes...

I had been able to break the curse myself. I'd had to have reason enough, love enough to do it, to find the will and the strength.

I know all about you, Char announced after we'd taken a few more steps. You do? How could you? Your cook and our cook meet at the market. She talks about you. He looked sideways at me. Do you know much about me?

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.

Queer Ducks flock together.

Char saw me. Over the shoulder of his partner, he mouthed, Wait for me. I grew roots. An earthquake could not have moved me. The clock struck a quarter before eleven. If it had struck the end of the world, I'd have stayed as I was.

Who judges the judge who judges wrong? The sentence too weak, The sentence too strong. The penance too quick, The penance too long. Who judges the judge who judges wrong?

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

Darling, everyone is beautiful in her own way, and I am a fairy.

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.

Love shouldn't be dictated