Laura Amy Schlitz Quotes

I think I'd like to be beautiful and heartless for a while, just to see what it's like.

Hold your head up! Throw you shoulders back! It's the cheapest way to tell the world you're somebody!

Maud, listen to me. It isn't wrong to be affectionate. And it isn't funny, either.

My books promised me that life wasn't just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.

You know how it is. Someone pretends to love you, and you give too much away.

You realize you are not alone when you write, and you start to write for the person who will read your words. I think that's a bad thing, but I'm not sure, because I do think of being an author someday, and authors have to commune with their readers.

The girls who come into my library adore the prettiness of fairies, theminiature-ness. But they are also nature lovers and lovers of adventure
the future wild women of America. I couldn't help thinking that these little girls who love fairies deserve something lively.

I think I would rather have a cat than a sweetheart, after all. They are less trouble, and even the handsomest sweetheart is sadly lacking in fur.

If I had books, if I could scrape together an education, I'd have a future, whether any man ever asked me to marry him or not.

On the morning of the best day of her life, Maude Flynn was locked in the outhouse singing 'the Battle Hymn of the Republic

She cried because Muffet loved her and because Hyacinth didn't.

I'm not a feather to be tossed about.