202 Quotes by Gail Carson Levine

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.

Instead of making me docile, Lucinda’s curse made a rebel of me.

If it had writing, I read it: cereal boxes, ads on the subway, billboards, highway signs. I.

There’s nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.

Love shouldn’t be dictated.

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.

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.

Fairy blood does not make you clumsy. That’s human.

I write fiction for lots of reasons. One is power. I’m in charge when I write. So are you. You create the world of the story. You make the rules.