31 Quotes by Nancy Springer

To be a man, apparently, was to lack the ability to be a woman

All the words I had prepared turned coward and fled my mind like conscripts deserting a battlefield.

It started small, as such fates often do.

Over the top of the hill a knight came riding. At first I saw only his helmeted head, bent, but even then I knew him and began to run toward him.A knight riding a weary horse, a battered knight with one arm in a sling, his shield hanging from his saddle. Its device, a single heart-shaped green leaf with a violet blossom.As I ran toward him he lifted his head, and his eyes smiled at me the warmest blue the world has ever known.

Face Guy of Gisbourne? Not likely, not anytime soon, thank you very much.

Nothing last forever except change.

To be a man, apparently, was to lack the ability to be a woman.

Confound my genteel upbringing! I could not think of any name foul enough to call him.

Yet one could speak truth and still be a villain.