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Drualt took Freya's warm hand, Her strong hand, Her sword hand, And pressed it to his lips, Pressed it to his heart. Come with me, ' he said. Come with me to battle, My love. Tarry at my side. Stay with me When battle is done. Tarry at my side. Laugh with me, And walk with me The long, long way. Tarry with me, My love, at my side.Gail Carson Levine
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Step follows step, Hope follows Courage, Set your face towards danger, Set your heart on victory.Gail Carson Levine
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Do you like to slide?" His voice was eager. Stair rails! Did he suspect me? I forced a sigh. "No, Majesty. I'm terrified of heights."" Oh." His polite tone had returned." I wish I could enjoy it. This fear of heights is an affliction." He nodded, a show of sympathy but not much interest. I was losing him." Especially, " I added, "as I've grown taller.Gail Carson Levine
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Hush Hattie! " I said, intoxicated with my success. "I don't want to go to my room. Everyone must know I shan't marry the prince." I ran to the door to our street, opened it, and called out into the night, "I shan't marry the prince." I turned back into the hall and ran to Char and threw my arms about his neck. "I shan't marry you." I kissed his cheek. He was safe from me.Gail Carson Levine
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I want to be with you forever and beyond...Gail Carson Levine
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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.Gail Carson Levine
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Would you favor me with a dance?" Over all the others I was his choice! I curtsied, and he took my hand. Our hands knew each other. Char looked at me, startled. "Have we met before, Lady?Gail Carson Levine
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Daughter, we didn't need your note - or a prince's visit - to tell us you'd done nothing wrong. We know the daughter we raised. We fear for your future, but never for your character. You take our love and our trust wherever you wander. Father.Gail Carson Levine
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I never met a word I didn't loveGail Carson Levine
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There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.Gail Carson Levine
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No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden. My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead.Gail Carson Levine
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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
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Kisses were better than potions.Gail Carson Levine
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Sorcerers believe that an action taken for the right reasons has an unreasonable chance of success.Gail Carson Levine
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In that moment I found a power beyond any I'd had before, a will and a determination I would never have need if not for Lucinda, a fortitude I hadn't been able to find for a lesser cause.Gail Carson Levine
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I had been able to break the curse myself. I'd had to have reason enough, love enough to do it, to find the will and the strength.Gail Carson Levine
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AhthOOn SSyng! " I said. "That's farewell."" It sounds evil."" It is, " I answered, and we parted.Gail Carson Levine
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I rode all day. I cried all night. The moon didn’t glow. The sun didn’t rise. A comet blazed Between my eyes. West and South, Wind and rain. Every way is Just the same. Pray give me a box To hide inside. Pray give me a spade To dig my own grave.Gail Carson Levine
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Climb the day, Drop your dreams, Possess the day.Gail Carson Levine
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But the lost one is with you. Her tenderness strengthens you, Her gaiety uplifts you, Her honor purifies you. More than memory, The lost one is found.Gail Carson Levine
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... He was only a person on the outside and... his insides were ashes mixed with coins and a brain.Gail Carson Levine
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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
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Crying is part of the adventureGail Carson Levine
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She asks why I like her. Might as well ask Why I breathe. Maybe tomorrow I won't Breathe or like her Anymore. Maybe tomorrow the tides Will stop. Maybe tomorrow will bring No more rainbows. Maybe tomorrow She will stop Asking useless questions.Gail Carson Levine
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When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings.Gail Carson Levine
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Who judges the judge who judges wrong?Gail Carson Levine
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Love shouldn't be dictatedGail Carson Levine
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When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind youGail Carson Levine
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Rapid movement was a relief in the midst of so much feeling.Gail Carson Levine
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Everyone else reached the Shores of Sleep, but I remained oceans away.Gail Carson Levine
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If I couldn't sleep, I could read.Gail Carson Levine
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Oak, granite, Lilies by the road, Remember me? I remember you. Clouds brushing Clover hills, Remember me? Sister, child, Grown tall, Remember me? I remember you.Gail Carson Levine
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I never saw a lad, page or prince, so eager to learn to do a thing right.Gail Carson Levine
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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
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I love you now... I love you immortally, even if I die and there is nothing left of me.Gail Carson Levine
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…while the outside world was full of danger, I knew my interior. I was certain that I could oust an intruder there.Gail Carson Levine
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I wished I could spend the rest of my life... being slightly crushed by someone who loved me.Gail Carson Levine
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Voices and faces aren't manifestationsof good or bad.Gail Carson Levine