Top 100 Gail Carson Levine Quotes

#1. I loved fairy tales as a kid. I've always been drawn to fantasy. They're always exciting. There's never a dull moment. I just love the embellishments and the magical stuff. It's such fun to work with and to re-imagine your own way.

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#2. Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.

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

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#4. Food for thought requires a mind with teeth.

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

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#6. 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.

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#7. You're Only the fairest when your fairest to yourself

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

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#9. Perhaps you couldn't help being angry... but you could certainly stop yourself from repaying one offense with another.

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#10. I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school, my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry.

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#11. I think kids abandon stories all the time. They start stories and get frustrated or get a different, better idea. I think that it is more worthwhile to stick with a story and revise it and try to finish it than abandon ship. Revisions, for any writer, are the name of the game.

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#12. When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings.

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#13. Pink, gold, blue.
I choose you!

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#14. Everyone else reached the Shores of Sleep, but I remained oceans away.

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#15. If I couldn't sleep, I could read.

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#16. After two stories, I blew out my light. The night was clear. My ceiling was the sky and an eyelash of the moon. By shifting from side to side, I made my hammock swing me into sleep.

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

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#18. In that moment I found a power beyond any I'd had before, a will and a determination I would never have need if not for Lucinda, a fortitude I hadn't been able to find for a lesser cause.

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

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#20. Crying is part of the adventure

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#21. 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

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#22. But the lost one is with you.
Her tenderness strengthens you,
Her gaiety uplifts you,
Her honor purifies you.
More than memory,
The lost one is found.

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#23. Everyone called it losing Mother, but she wasn't lost. She was gone, and no matter where I went - another town, another country, Fairyland, or Gnome Caverns - I wouldn't find her

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#24. Fate...may...be...thwarted.

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#25. I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.

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#26. I refused to love it. He was going to sell it too

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#27. I was excited to make my own 'Neverland.'

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#28. If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.

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#29. I decided to draw her doing something, because she always was.

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#30. I shan't marry a prince!

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#31. Rapid movement was a relief in the midst of so much feeling.

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#32. It feels presumptuous to think of writing for adults.

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#33. Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

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#34. 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.

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#35. I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

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#36. 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.

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#37. A library is infinity under a roof.

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#38. I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.

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

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

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#41. 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.

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#42. 'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.

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#43. AhthOOn SSyng!" I said. "That's farewell."
"It sounds evil."
"It is," I answered, and we parted.

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

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#45. My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical, 'Spacenapped' that was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn.

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#46. I'd never before been infatuated with someone living, someone real.

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

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

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#49. I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.

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#50. 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.

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

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#52. I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story because it already had a plot! Then, when I thought about Cinderella's character, I realized that she was too much of a goody-two-shoes for me, and I would hate her before I finished ten pages.

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#53. I never met a word I didn't love

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

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#55. 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.

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#56. Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.

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

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#58. I make mistakes on a very grand scale.

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#59. Get to know your kids' minds and how they think.

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

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

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#62. 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.

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

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#64. 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.

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

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#66. 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.

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#67. My good ideas are shy. But if they see that I treat the stupid ideas with respect, they come forward.

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

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#69. But sleep was busy elsewhere

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

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#71. Most of my job life has had to do with welfare, first helping people find work and then as an administrator. The earlier experience was more direct and satisfying, and I enjoy thinking that a bunch of people somewhere are doing better today than they might have done if not for me.

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#72. I saw the other loners the way everyone else did-as unappealing, as to be avoided at all costs. If I hung out with one of them, I thought, my unpopular status would get worse, not better, because it would be magnified by association.

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#73. Love shouldn't be dictated

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#74. As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.

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#75. 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

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#76. That the book is really good. and theres a prince in it to.

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#77. Managing to tell a story is very gratifying.

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#78. 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.

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

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#80. 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.

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#81. 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?

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

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#83. 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.

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

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#85. I never saw a lad, page or prince, so eager to learn to do a thing right.

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#86. 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.

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#87. 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.

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#88. Curse made a rebel of me. Or perhaps I was that way naturally. Mother rarely insisted I do anything. Father

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#89. I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. 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.

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#90. ... He was only a person on the outside and... his insides were ashes mixed with coins and a brain.

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#91. 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?

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#92. 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.

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#93. My contrariness kept Char laughing, and his goodness kept me in love.

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#94. Queer Ducks flock together.

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#95. [Fairies] had faults, but they were perfectly themselves. Vidia, for instance, who was the fastest flier, didn't care about anybody but herself. She was by no means perfect, but she was perfectly Vidia. Fairies were concentrated, like bouillon cubes.

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#96. 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?

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#97. Who judges the judge who judges wrong?

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#98. Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.

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#99. 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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#100. I love you now ... I love you immortally, even if I die and there is nothing left of me.

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