Beth Barany > Beth's Quotes

“One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love”
― Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy

“You know how you have a good meal and you got gravy left on the plate. The gravy was so good that you don’t want to leave it on the plate but you don’t want to be a pig about it? So you take your bread and use it to sop up the rest of the gravy. That guy is totally soppable!”
― Erin Jamison, Better Than 8: Fantasy

“He reached out and intertwined our hands. Gently urging me forward he whispered, “Have I lost you love?”
― Erin Jamison, Better Than 8: Fantasy

“I’m in the habit of employing either sharks or mice.”
― Erin Jamison, Better Than 8: Fantasy

“Authors go on writing books, and so we go on reading them. It is a sad state of affairs.”
― Elizabeth Aston, Mr. Darcy's Daughters

“Sense is apt to fly out of the window when a girl falls in love.”
― Elizabeth Aston, Mr. Darcy's Daughters

“Innocence might be its own reward, but when it boardered on naivete, if not stupidity, it was unforgivable.”
― Elizabeth Aston, Mr. Darcy's Daughters

“You'll meet someone else; there are more fish in the sea, as the saying is, than ever came out of it.”
― Elizabeth Aston, Mr. Darcy's Daughters

“Some young ladies meet a man and from there it is all plain sailing, but this is not the usual way it happens.”
― Elizabeth Aston, Mr. Darcy's Daughters

“People make one happy, not houses.”
― Elizabeth Aston, Mr. Darcy's Daughters

“Eram pequenos nadas que faziam com que a vida valesse afinal a pena.”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, The Villa in Italy

“Observou a doce ondulação das águas a rebentar na praia. Porque é que o mar sempre em movimento era tão calmante, tão infinitamente sedutor?”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, The Villa in Italy

“Podes viver a tua vida para agradar os outros e nunca te sentires completamente bem, totalmente viva, ou podes viver a vida que queres para agradar a ti própria.”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, The Villa in Italy

“Believe in the magic that's in you, its potential, what it can achieve. But most of all believe in yourself and create a world where dreams become reality.”
― Charlene A Wilson

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
― Mark Twain

“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

“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

“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

“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, Ella Enchanted

“It is helpful to know the proper way to behave, so one can decide whether or not to be proper.”
― Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted

“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

“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

“That's funny, you're funny. I like you, I'm quite taken by you.”
― Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted

“I was born singing. Most babies cry, I sang an aria.”
― Gail Carson Levine, Fairest

“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

“You're Only the fairest when your fairest to yourself”
― Gail Carson Levine

“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

“And so, with laughter and love, we lived happily ever after.”
― Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted

“Things change, people change, but that doesn't mean you should forget the past.”
― Gail Carson Levine