"A library is infinity under a roof."
— Gail Carson Levine

"Step follows step,
Hope follows Courage,
Set your face towards danger,
Set your heart on victory."
— Gail Carson Levine (The Two Princesses of Bamarre)

"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 (The Two Princesses of Bamarre)

""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 (Ella Enchanted)

":I was born singing. Most babies cry, I sang an aria"-Fairest, Gail Carson Levine"
— Gail Carson Levine

""Do you like to slide?" His voice was eage.
Stair rails! Did he suspect me? I forced a sigh. "No, Majesty. I'm terrrified of heights."
"Oh." His poite 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 (Ella Enchanted)

"I wished she’d never stop squeezing me. I wished I could spend the rest of my life as a child, being slightly crushed by someone who loved me."
— Gail Carson Levine (Ella Enchanted)

"He -it- was a specter! I stepped back, stunned. "
— Gail Carson Levine (The Two Princesses of Bamarre)

""Fate...may...be...thwarted.""
— Gail Carson Levine (Ever)

"He is flawless, without a blemish. Majesic . . . muscular."
— Gail Carson Levine (Ever)

"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 (The Wish)

"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 (Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly)

"“Step follows step. Hope follows courage. Set your face toward danger. Set your heart on victory.” "
— Gail Carson Levine

"That's Funny, your funny. I like you, I'm quite taken by you."
— Gail Carson Levine (Ella Enchanted)

""Fate...may...be...thwarted."
-Puru God of Fate"
— Gail Carson Levine (Ever)

"I shan't marry a prince!"
— Gail Carson Levine (Ella Enchanted)

"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 you"
— Gail Carson Levine (Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly)

"I put my fingers around the unmarked ring of the spyglass and twisted. The scene became clear.
Oh no! A hairy brown spider clung to a vine! I couldn't go there!
I'd go to the desert to find a dragon. I began to reset the spyglass, but then I stopped myself. A spider was worse than a dragon?
No.
My first monsters would be spiders, then.
- Princess Addie, The 2 Princesses of Bamarre"
— Gail Carson Levine

"Luck was with me. I saw no spiders.
Luck was against me. I saw no specters.
- Princess Addie, The Two Princesses of Bamarre"
— Gail Carson Levine

"No, I won't marry you. I won't do it.
No one can force me. "
— Gail Carson Levine

"When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings."
— Gail Carson Levine (Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly)