202 Quotes by Gail Carson Levine

She asks why I like her.Might as well askWhy I breathe.Maybe tomorrow I won'tBreathe or like herAnymore.Maybe tomorrow the tidesWill stop.Maybe tomorrow will bringNo more rainbows.Maybe tomorrowShe will stopAsking useless questions.

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.

I wished I could spend the rest of my life... being slightly crushed by someone who loved me.

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.

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

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

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.

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

…while the outside world was full of danger, I knew my interior. I was certain that I could oust an intruder there.