41 Quotes by Laura Amy Schlitz

Even though there were too many feelings, it strikes me that having them all at once, all tangled together, is one of the most interesting things that’s ever happened to me.

And yet, if she wasn’t pretty, she didn’t know it. She spoke and walked and moved her hands as if she were bewitchingly pretty. And for some reason, it was hard to take your eyes off her. I guess a novel would have said it was the play of her features. She was lively; she was animated; her lips curved with mischief, and her small eyes sparkled. I wonder if my features ever play. I bet they don.

You realize you are not alone when you write, and you start to write for the person who will read your words. I think that’s a bad thing, but I’m not sure, because I do think of being an author someday, and authors have to commune with their readers.

I’m not a feather to be tossed about.

When I behold the ocean, I know that the world isn’t just the grind of small tasks and small thoughts. The world is wide and wild and grand. Someday I will sail my little bark into the great ocean of life, braving the winds and the tide. And while the waves may dwarf me, they will not belittle me, because I will be the master of my fate and the captain of my soul.

My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.

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

Not having any books makes me feel empty and strained and pathetic.

I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.