Gail Carson Levine Quotes - Page 3

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• He loved me. He'd loved me as long as he he'd known me! I hadn't loved him as long perhaps, but now I loved him equally well, or better. I loved his laugh, his handwriting, his steady gaze, his honorableness, his freckles, his appreciation of my jokes, his hands, his determination that I should know the worst of him. And, most of all, shameful though it might be, I loved his love for me.

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  Appreciation, Determination, Hands

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• 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.

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  Voice, Wish, Tone

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

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  Force

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• 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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  Father, Book, Night

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• I'm more interested in plot than theme, but I hope my values find their way into my stories: kindness, sympathy, effort, and humor!

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  Kindness, Effort, Plot

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• 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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  Fun, Kids, Dull

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

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  Baby, Singing, Cry

  Gail Carson Levine (2012). “Fairest”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• He is flawless, without a blemish. Majesic . . . muscular.

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  Flawless

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• When I was little I knew my father had been an orphan and had lived in an orphanage. I was curious, but my father wouldn't satisfy my curiosity. He told only one story about the orphanage, and that was of sneaking out and buying candy, which he sold to other orphans. He said he had a pretty good business going - till he was busted! I guess he told that anecdote because he was the hero of it and I suspect he was rarely the hero as a child, more often the victim. There's a photo of the actual orphanage on my website, and you can see it's a forbidding looking place.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Children, Father, Hero

  Interview with Jessica Day George, www.bookshoptalk.com. September 22, 2011.

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

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  Way, Helpful, Behave

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

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  Voice, Faces, Manifestation

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• No one is here," Char said. "You need resist temptation no longer." "Only if you slide too." "I'll go first so I can catch you at the bottom." He flew down so incautiously that I suspected him of years of practice in his own castle. It was my turn. The ride was a dream, longer and steeper than the rail at home. The hall rose to meet me, and Char was there. He caught me and spun me around.

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  Dream, Home, Years

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• He put his hand on my waist, and my heart began to pound, a rougher rhythm than the music. I held my skirt. Our free hands met. His felt warm and comforting and unsettling and bewildering--all at once.

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  Love, Heart, Hands

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• 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. And I meditate, and one time when I was meditating, I started thinking, "Gee Gail, you love stories -- you read all the time. How come you never tell yourself a story?" While I should have been saying my mantra to myself, I started telling myself a story. It turned out to be an art appreciation book for kids with reproductions of famous artworks and pencil drawings that I did. I tried to get it published and was rejected wholesale.

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  Appreciation, Art, Book

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

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  Jobs, Inspiration, Writing

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• Why do you keep reading a book? Usually to find out what happens. Why do you give up and stop reading it? There may be lots of reasons. But often the answer is you don't care what happens. So what makes the difference between caring and not caring? The author's cruelty. And the reader's sympathy...it takes a mean author to write a good story.

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  Giving Up, Book, Reading

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• 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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  Kids, Thinking, Games

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• 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.

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  Mother, Reading, Writing

  "Ella Enchanted". Book by Gail Carson Levine, 1997.

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• Crying is part of the adventure.

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  Adventure, Cry

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• 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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  Writing, Bores You, Ems

  Gail Carson Levine (2013). “Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly”, Harper Collins

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• 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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  Horse, Sorry, Eye

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

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  Young, Young Ladies

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• 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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  Shoes, Doe, Wonder

  Gail Carson Levine (2013). “Ever”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• 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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  Taken, Steps, Sideways

  Gail Carson Levine (2012). “Ella Enchanted”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• 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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  Should Have, Done, Caught

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