Laura Amy Schlitz Quotes

#1. Dr. Wintermute beheld Mrs. Pinchbeck befeathered, beribboned, crinolined, corseted, frizzled, and festooned, though not wasted.

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

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#3. I'm not a feather to be tossed about.

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#4. 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.

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#5. If I had books, if I could scrape together an education, I'd have a future, whether any man ever asked me to marry him or not.

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#6. My books promised me that life wasn't just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.

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#7. On the morning of the best day of her life, Maude Flynn was locked in the outhouse singing 'the Battle Hymn of the Republic

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#8. When I behold the ocean, I know that the world isn't just the grind of small tasks and small thoughts.

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#9. You know how it is. Someone pretends to love you, and you give too much away.

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

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#11. 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.

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#12. The girls who come into my library adore the prettiness of fairies, theminiature-ness. But they are also nature lovers and lovers of adventure
the future wild women of America. I couldn't help thinking that these little girls who love fairies deserve something lively.

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#13. Hold your head up! Throw you shoulders back! It's the cheapest way to tell the world you're somebody!

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#14. I think I would rather have a cat than a sweetheart, after all. They are less trouble, and even the handsomest sweetheart is sadly lacking in fur.

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