Quotes from Laura Amy Schlitz

I quite lost myself, gazing at this work of art. . . It thrilled me, that sculpture. For one thing, it reminded me that in my new life, I may have other such experiences. I needn't always be an ignorant girl. The world will offer itself to me like a chalice brimming with immortal wine, and I will quaff from it.

I think I'd like to be beautiful and heartless for a while, just to see what it's like.

Most of the time when you laugh, it's because something is amiss - clumsy or wrong or sad - but when you laugh at a kitten, you laugh of pure joy.

Even though there were too many feelings, it strikes me that having them all at once, all tangled together, is one of the most interesting things that's ever happened to me.

and I sometimes wonder if every living thing doesn't need kind words as much as sunshine and water.

You realize you are not alone when you write, and you start to write for the person who will read your words. I think that's a bad thing, but I'm not sure, because I do think of being an author someday, and authors have to commune with their readers.

And yet, if she wasn't pretty, she didn't know it. She spoke and walked and moved her hands as if she were bewitchingly pretty. And for some reason, it was hard to take your eyes off her. I guess a novel would have said it was the play of her features. She was lively; she was animated; her lips curved with mischief, and her small eyes sparkled. I wonder if my features ever play. I bet they don

I'm not a feather to be tossed about.

She cried because Muffet loved her and because Hyacinth didn't.

In real life, you eat the cinnamon toast, even if your heart is burning.

Maud, listen to me. It isn't wrong to be affectionate. And it isn't funny, either.

Parsefall did not love fresh air. In his experience, it was apt to be cold.

I'd rather be impetuous than placid any day.

I knew that reading that book would take me into another world — the real world, not the ordinary world of washing the dishes and mopping the floor. It would be like what Keats said about gazing through a magic casement into faery lands forlorn.

It's a mystery where your daughter's gone, and a mystery where the other two've gone,

All three sons believed they had the right ring, but there was no proof they were right. But all three rings were precious and beautiful, because they came from the father, and the father loved all three sons.

I know God can't answer every prayers exactly the way you want Him to. But I couldn't help thinking that He hadn't been doing very well by me lately. Even so, I prayed. It wasn't a proper prayer, just a cry for help, but I felt He was listening.

I have always thought that if something dreadful happened, I would be very brave, but when someone has a needle next to your eye, it's different.

If you're not going to wear a tiara when you win a Newbery Award, when are you going to wear one?

Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.