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“I shan't marry a prince!”

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Gail Carson Levine is an American children's literature author, known for her beloved fairy tales that blend traditional elements with modern narrative techniques. more

“Too pissed off to cry, I said, 'This is only making me hate her. I don't want to hate her. And what's the point, if that's all it's making me do?' Still refusing to answer how and why questions. Still insisting on an aura of mystery. I leaned forward, head between by knees, and the Colonel placed a head on my upper back. 'The point is that there are always alsweres, Pudge.' And then he pushed air out between his pursed lips and I could hear the angry quiver in his voice as he repeated, 'There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough.' ~Miles/Pudge and Chip/the Colonel, pg 168”

Ifs Want Said Stills Enough Hate Voice Answers Air Mystery Cry Smart Angry Lips Knees Chips Being Smart Auras Insisting Pissed Off Colonels Quiver Pudge Hate Her

Book:Looking for Alaska

Source: Looking for Alaska

“Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.”

Habit Not Afraid

Book:The Voice of Hope

Source: The Voice of Hope

“Listen baby, Muver love you. Muver not dumb. Listen baby: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. Thas the alphabet. Twenty- six letters in all. Them letters make up words. Them words everything.”

Love You Baby Six Letters Twenties Dumb Alphabet

Author:Sapphire

“Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.”

Life I Can Today Mother Died Yesterday Mother Died

Book:The Stranger

Source: The Stranger

“Reading it the night before, I'd wondered if it would be like that for me-if in one moment, I would finally understand her, know her, and understand the role I'd played in her dying. But I wasn't convinced enlightenment struck like lightining.”

Ifs Knows Moments Would Be Night Reading Roles Dying Enlightenment Convinced

Book:Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition

“After all this time, it seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out- but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.”

Way Seems Blow Labyrinth Colonels Looking For Alaska Book Labyrinth Looking For Alaska

Book:Looking for Alaska

Source: Looking for Alaska

“She said, "It's not life or death, the labyrinth." "Um, okay. So what is it?" "Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?... Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about."”

“I wonder about all the roads not taken and am moved to quote Frost...but won't. It is sad to be able only to mouth other poets. I want someone to mouth me.”

Want Able Wonder Taken Poet Mouths Moved Frost Road Not Taken

Book:The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Because a real kiss, a kiss that two real people choose to give each other - it's something that can't be filmed or photographed or drawn, or even described with words. Because a kiss isn't what it looks like or how it feels. A real kiss happens down deep inside of two hearts at the same time. It's hidden away. A real kiss is invisible.”

People Giving Feels Looks Heart Two Real Happens Kissing Invisible Deep Inside Two Hearts

Book:Things That Are

Source: Things That Are

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