Quotes by Gail Carson Levine

Gail Carson Levine

A library is infinity under a roof.

Book

Infinity

Library

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.

Needs

Squirrels

Together

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

And Love

Ever After

Laughter

But my last conscious thought was an image of Prince Char when he’d caught the bridle of Sir Stephan’s horse. His face had been close to mine. Two curls had spilled onto his forehead. A few freckles dusted his nose, and his eyes said he was sorry for me to go.

Eye

Horse

Sorry

But what I really long to know you do not tell either: what you feel, although I’ve given you hints by the score of my regard. You like me. You wouldn’t waste time or paper on a being you didn’t like. But I think I’ve loved you since we met at your mother’s funeral. I want to be with you forever and beyond, but you write that you are too young to marry or too old or too short or too hungry – until I crumple your letters up in despair, only to smooth them out again for a twelfth reading, hunting for hidden meanings.

Mother

Reading

Writing

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

Climbs

Dream

Morning

Crying is part of the adventure.

Adventure

Cry

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.

Character

Daughter

Father

Do not beat up on yourself. Do not criticize your writing as lousy, inadequate, stupid, or any of the evil epithets that you are used to heaping on yourself. Such self-bashing is never useful. If you indulge in it, your writing doesn’t stand a chance. So when your mind turns on you, turn it back, stamp it down, shut it up, and keep writing.

Self

Stupid

Writing

Do you like to slide?” His voice was eager. Stair rails! Did he suspect me? I forced a sigh. “No, Majesty. I’m terrified of heights.” “Oh.” His polite tone had returned. “I wish I could enjoy it. This fear of heights is an affliction.” He nodded, a show of sympathy but not much interest. I was losing him. “Especially,” I added, “as I’ve grown taller.

Tone

Voice

Wish

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Adventure

And Love

Appreciation

Art

Asking

Baby

Behave

Blessed

Book

Bores You

Caught

Character

Children

Choices

Climbs

Clouds

Cry

Daughter

Determination

Discovery

Doe

Done

Doors

Dragons

Dream

Dull

Effort

Embrace

Ems

Ever After

Eye

Faces

Fate

Father

Favors

Fear

Feelings

Flawless

Force

Forever

Fun

Games

Giving Up

Hands

Hardest

Heart

Helpful

Hero

Home

Horse

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Quotes by Gail Carson Levine

Gail Carson Levine

A library is infinity under a roof.

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.

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

But my last conscious thought was an image of Prince Char when he’d caught the bridle of Sir Stephan’s horse. His face had been close to mine. Two curls had spilled onto his forehead. A few freckles dusted his nose, and his eyes said he was sorry for me to go.

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

Crying is part of the adventure.

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.

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