Gail Carson Levine, Fairest Quotes

Climb the day, Drop your dreams, Possess the day.

Who judges the judge who judges wrong?

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.

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.

Kisses were better than potions.

No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden.My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead.

Voices and faces aren't manifestationsof good or bad.