Laura Amy Schlitz Quotes & Sayings

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. — Laura Amy Schlitz

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. — Laura Amy Schlitz

Hold your head up! Throw you shoulders back! It's the cheapest way to tell the world you're somebody! — Laura Amy Schlitz

I'm not a feather to be tossed about. — Laura Amy Schlitz

Dr. Wintermute beheld Mrs. Pinchbeck befeathered, beribboned, crinolined, corseted, frizzled, and festooned, though not wasted. — Laura Amy Schlitz

I think I would rather have a cat than a sweetheart, after all. They are less trouble, and even the handsomest sweetheart is sadly lacking in fur. — Laura Amy Schlitz

I quite lost myself, gazing at this work of art ... It thrilled me, that sculpture. For one thing, it reminded me that in my new life, I may have other such experiences. I needn't always be an ignorant girl. The world will offer itself to me like a chalice brimming with immortal wine, and I will quaff from it. — Laura Amy Schlitz

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. — Laura Amy Schlitz

I sometimes wonder if every living thing doesn't need kind words as much as sunshine and water. — Laura Amy Schlitz

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. — Laura Amy Schlitz

You know how it is. Someone pretends to love you, and you give too much away. — Laura Amy Schlitz

He pried Clara's arms loose and stood up, smoothing his wrinkled coat. Clara looked straight into his face. Her eyelids were red, but her gaze was like a lance. Dr. Wintermute had a sudden, uncomfortable conviction that she had seen into his soul. It was a look he was to remember often in the weeks to come. — Laura Amy Schlitz

When I behold the ocean, I know that the world isn't just the grind of small tasks and small thoughts. — Laura Amy Schlitz

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. — Laura Amy Schlitz

On the morning of the best day of her life, Maude Flynn was locked in the outhouse singing 'the Battle Hymn of the Republic — Laura Amy Schlitz

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