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1 " But I think the most important thing those books gave me was a kind of faith. My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workaday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that. "
― Laura Amy Schlitz , The Hired Girl
2 " Most of the time when you laugh, it's because something is amiss - clumsy or wrong or sad - but when you laugh at a kitten, you laugh of pure joy. "
― Laura Amy Schlitz
3 " I quite lost myself, gazing at this work of art. . . It thrilled me, that sculpture. For one thing, it reminded me that in my new life, I may have other such experiences. I needn't always be an ignorant girl. The world will offer itself to me like a chalice brimming with immortal wine, and I will quaff from it. "
4 " He pried Clara's arms loose and stood up, smoothing his wrinkled coat. Clara looked straight into his face. Her eyelids were red, but her gaze was like a lance. Dr. Wintermute had a sudden, uncomfortable conviction that she had seen into his soul. It was a look he was to remember often in the weeks to come. "
― Laura Amy Schlitz , Splendors and Glooms
5 " 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. "
6 " She cried because Muffet loved her and because Hyacinth didn't. "
― Laura Amy Schlitz , A Drowned Maiden's Hair
7 " 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. "
8 " You know how it is. Someone pretends to love you, and you give too much away. "
9 " on the morning of the best day of her life, Maude Flynn was locked in the outhouse singing 'the Battle Hymn of the Republic "
10 " ...I sometimes wonder if every living thing doesn't need kind words as much as sunshine and water. "
11 " Hold your head up! Throw you shoulders back! It's the cheapest way to tell the world you're somebody! "
12 " When I behold the ocean, I know that the world isn't just the grind of small tasks and small thoughts. "
13 " 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. "
14 " Dr. Wintermute beheld Mrs. Pinchbeck befeathered, beribboned, crinolined, corseted, frizzled, and festooned, though not wasted. "
15 " When I behold the ocean, I know that the world isn't just the grind of small tasks and small thoughts. The world is wide and wild and grand. Someday I will sail my little bark into the great ocean of life, braving the winds and the tide. And while the waves may dwarf me, they will not belittle me, because I will be the master of my fate and the captain of my soul. "
16 " Not having any books makes me feel empty and strained and pathetic. "
17 " I think I’d like to be beautiful and heartless for a while, just to see what it’s like. "
18 " Maud, listen to me. It isn't wrong to be affectionate. And it isn't funny, either. "
19 " and I sometimes wonder if every living thing doesn’t need kind words as much as sunshine and water. "
20 " And yet, if she wasn’t pretty, she didn’t know it. She spoke and walked and moved her hands as if she were bewitchingly pretty. And for some reason, it was hard to take your eyes off her. I guess a novel would have said it was the play of her features. She was lively; she was animated; her lips curved with mischief, and her small eyes sparkled. I wonder if my features ever play. I bet they don "
