Laura Amy Schlitz

“Not having any books makes me feel empty and strained and pathetic.”

— Laura Amy Schlitz

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

— Laura Amy Schlitz

“and I sometimes wonder if every living thing doesn’t need kind words as much as sunshine and water.”

— Laura Amy Schlitz

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

— Laura Amy Schlitz

“He pried Clara's arms loose and stood up, smoothing his wrinkled coat. Clara looked straight into his face. Her eyelids were red,…

— Laura Amy Schlitz

“I knew that reading that book would take me into another world — the real world, not the ordinary world of washing…

— Laura Amy Schlitz

The girls who come into my library adore the prettiness of fairies, theminiature-ness. But they are also nature lovers and lovers of…

— Laura Amy Schlitz

“on the morning of the best day of her life, Maude Flynn was locked in the outhouse singing 'the Battle Hymn of…

— Laura Amy Schlitz

“Dr. Wintermute beheld Mrs. Pinchbeck befeathered, beribboned, crinolined, corseted, frizzled, and festooned, though not wasted.”

— Laura Amy Schlitz

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

— Laura Amy Schlitz