“To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph entirely.”
Gail Carson Levine“I never met a word I didn't love”
Gail Carson Levine“Voices and faces aren't manifestationsof good or bad.”
Gail Carson Levine, Fairest“I love you now... I love you immortally, even if I die and there is nothing left of me.”
Gail Carson Levine, Ever“I wonder how Admat can be everywhere. Is he in my sandal? Or is he my sandal itself? Why would a god bother to be a sandal? Does he wear shoes or sandals himself, invisible ones?”
Gail Carson Levine, Ever“Who judges the judge who judges wrong?”
Gail Carson Levine, Fairest“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.”
Gail Carson Levine, The Wish“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.”
Gail Carson Levine, Fairest“Climb the day, Drop your dreams, Possess the day.”
Gail Carson Levine, Fairest“I rode all day.I cried all night.The moon didn’t glow.The sun didn’t rise.A comet blazedBetween my eyes.West and South,Wind and rain.Every way isJust the same.Pray give me a boxTo hide inside.Pray give me a spadeTo dig my own grave.”
Gail Carson Levine, Fairest“To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph entirely.”
Gail Carson Levine, Fairest