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There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.
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words
reading
re-reading
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Gail Carson Levine |
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Step follows step, Hope follows Courage, Set your face towards danger, Set your heart on victory.
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inspirational
victory
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Gail Carson Levine |
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Step follows step
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courage-builder
inspirational
victory
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Gail Carson Levine |
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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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hugging
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Gail Carson Levine |
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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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Gail Carson Levine |
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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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wit
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Gail Carson Levine |
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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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bridge
childhood
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Gail Carson Levine |
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That's funny, you're funny. I like you, I'm quite taken by you.
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Gail Carson Levine |
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And so, with laughter and love, we lived happily ever after.
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Gail Carson Levine |
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Hush Hattie!" I said, intoxicated with my success. "I don't want to go to my room. Everyone must know I shan't marry the prince." I ran to the door to our street, opened it, and called out into the night, "I shan't marry the prince." I turned back into the hall and ran to Char and threw my arms about his neck. "I shan't marry you." I kissed his cheek. He was safe from me."
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romance
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Gail Carson Levine |
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I want to be with you forever and beyond...
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romance
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Gail Carson Levine |
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Drualt took Freya's warm hand, Her strong hand, Her sword hand, And pressed it to his lips, Pressed it to his heart. Come with me,' he said. Come with me to battle, My love. Tarry at my side. Stay with me When battle is done. Tarry at my side. Laugh with me, And walk with me The long, long way. Tarry with me, My love, at my side.
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Gail Carson Levine |
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I was born singing. Most babies cry, I sang an aria.
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Gail Carson Levine |
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When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings.
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feelings
write
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Gail Carson Levine |
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I trust you to find the good in me, but the bad I must be sure you don't overlook.
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Gail Carson Levine |
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Who judges the judge who judges wrong?
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justice
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Gail Carson Levine |
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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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Gail Carson Levine |
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If I couldn't sleep, I could read.
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sleep
reading
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Gail Carson Levine |
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I put my fingers around the unmarked ring of the spyglass and twisted. The scene became clear. Oh no! A hairy brown spider clung to a vine! I couldn't go there! I'd go to the desert to find a dragon. I began to reset the spyglass, but then I stopped myself. A spider was worse than a dragon? No. My first monsters would be spiders, then.
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Gail Carson Levine |
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He stopped and took my hand. "If we die, or if I die..." He was speaking of dying, and I couldn't stop smiling. In the dark he must not have noticed, because he said in a rush, "I must tell you that I love you, and if I live I will ask for your hand, but you needn't say anything now if it distresses you, and I might rather die without knowing that you don't love me if that's how you feel." I tried to speak, but nothing came. I had gained co..
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Gail Carson Levine |
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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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Gail Carson Levine |
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That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When I cried inconsolably through my first hour of life, my tears were her inspiration. Shaking her head sympathetically at Mother, the fairy touched my nose. "My gift is obedience. Ella will always be obedient. Now stop crying, child." I stopped."
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Gail Carson Levine |
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Fate...may...be...thwarted.
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puru
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Gail Carson Levine |
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No, I won't marry you. I won't do it. No one can force me.
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gail carson levine |
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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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Gail Carson Levine |
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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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romance
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Gail Carson Levine |
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Luck was with me. I saw no spiders. Luck was against me. I saw no specters.
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Gail Carson Levine |
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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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trust
love
fathers-and-daughters
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Gail Carson Levine |
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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 ..
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Gail Carson Levine |
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I shan't marry a prince!
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Gail Carson Levine |
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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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romance
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Gail Carson Levine |
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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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Gail Carson Levine |
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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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Gail Carson Levine |
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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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Gail Carson Levine |
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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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Gail Carson Levine |
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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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love
reunion
remember
sisters
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Gail Carson Levine |
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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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Gail Carson Levine |
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Climb the day, Drop your dreams, Possess the day.
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dream
morning
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Gail Carson Levine |
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He -it- was a specter! I stepped back, stunned.
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Gail Carson Levine |
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You were her friend?" he asked. "You liked her?" I told him Ella was the best friend I ever had. He paused again, and I feared he would say she died. But he finally answered that he believed her to be well and married to a rich gentleman. He added, " She is happy, I think, She is rich, so she is happy." Without thinking, I blurted, "Ella doesn't care about riches." Then I realized I'd contradicted a prince! " How do you know?" he said. I an..
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Gail Carson Levine |
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Crying is part of the adventure
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bravery
cry
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Gail Carson Levine |
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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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humor
sandals
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Gail Carson Levine |
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Voices and faces aren't manifestations of good or bad.
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face
voice
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Gail Carson Levine |
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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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Gail Carson Levine |