41 Quotes by Laura Amy Schlitz

She cried because Muffet loved her and because Hyacinth didn't.

I'd rather be impetuous than placid any day.

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

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.

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.

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.

I think I’d like to be beautiful and heartless for a while, just to see what it’s like.

Maud, listen to me. It isn’t wrong to be affectionate. And it isn’t funny, either.

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