I saw the other loners the way everyone else did-as unappealing, as to be avoided at all costs. If I hung out with one of them, I thought, my unpopular status would get worse, not better, because it would be magnified by association.
A library is infinity under a roof.
Climb the day, Drop your dreams, Possess the day.
There’s nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.
Who judges the judge who judges wrong?
And so, with laughter and love, we lived happily ever after.
I never met a word I didn’t love.
He put his hand on my waist, and my heart began to pound, a rougher rhythm than the music. I held my skirt. Our free hands met. His felt warm and comforting and unsettling and bewildering – all at once.
I loved fairy tales as a kid. I’ve always been drawn to fantasy. They’re always exciting. There’s never a dull moment. I just love the embellishments and the magical stuff. It’s such fun to work with and to re-imagine your own way.
I was no hero. The dearest wishes of my heart were for safety and tranquility. The world was a perilous place, wrong for the likes of me.
I think kids abandon stories all the time. They start stories and get frustrated or get a different, better idea. I think that it is more worthwhile to stick with a story and revise it and try to finish it than abandon ship. Revisions, for any writer, are the name of the game.
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.
Crying is part of the adventure.
I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
I’m more interested in plot than theme, but I hope my values find their way into my stories: kindness, sympathy, effort, and humor!
I love having written. Sometimes I love writing. I love to revise. Revising is my favorite part of writing.
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.
No, I won’t marry you. I won’t do it. No one can force me.
I shan’t marry a prince!
Luck was with me. I saw no spiders. Luck was against me. I saw no specters.