Abigail > Abigail's Quotes

“Unfortunately being born princess doesn't autimatically make a girl graceful or confident, a fact I've lamented for most of my fourteen years”
― E.D. Baker, The Frog Princess

“When I grow up, I'd like to be dangerous.”
― Kirsten Miller, Inside the Shadow City

“You big crybaby," I whispered into his ear. "Now you know why your mom warned you not to hit girls. Sometimes they hit back.”
― Kirsten Miller, Inside the Shadow City

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite

“Look at me! I'm big! I'm strong! I'm a superior example of froghood and capable of protecting us both!”
― E.D. Baker, The Frog Princess

“Random Guy: You can't snowboard? Want me to teach you?

Haruna: Huh?

Random Guy: You here with your friends? I am too, but do you want to board together?

Haruna: What? Could you be...hitting on me?

Random Guy: Haha. That's...an extremely direct way to put it, but yes, I'm hitting on you.

Haruna: Wait, I know. Is it that you have some kind of secret grudge against Komiyama Yoh?

Random Guy: Who?

Haruna: Or you're going to sell me, or take my money, or something?

Random Guy: Uh...No...

Haruna: You mean you're purely trying to pick me up?

Random Guy: Yes, purely...

Haruna: Yoh! I got hit on!

Random Guy: Oh, so your boyfriends here. Please excuse me.

Haruna: He was trying to pick me up! Isn't that incredible!

Yoh: It's not incredible!! Don't get picked up!!

Haruna: This is the first time that I've been hit on in my entire life!

Yoh: Don't get hit on up here! What are you so happy about?

Haruna: I'm not happy. It's more like... surprised?

Yoh: You should've hurried up and said no right away!

Haruna: Well, it was my first time getting hit on, so I'd never had to say no before, so I didn't know what to do and...

Yoh: In that situation, just hit the guy!

Hatuna: Whaaaat? With my fist?

Yoh: With your fist! Or just slap him!

Haruna: Understood. I'll hit them!”
― Kazune Kawahara

“Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people...Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren’t pretty, or smart, or young. They’re still princesses.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“You're going to be something, you and that language you speak on paper.”
― Patricia Reilly Giff, Pictures of Hollis Woods

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
― Roald Dahl