But what I really long to know you do not tell either: what you feel, although I've given … - Gail Carson Levine

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She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.

Gail Carson Levine

But what I really long to know you do not tell either: what you feel, although I've given you hints by the score of my regard. You like me. You wouldn't waste time or paper on a being you didn't like. But I think I've loved you since we met at your mother's funeral. I want to be with you forever and beyond, but you write that you are too young to marry or too old or too short or too hungry---until I crumple your letters up in despair, only to smooth them out again for a twelfth reading, hunting for hidden meanings.

Given, Mother, Reading, Score, Writing, Young

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I had to share a room with my sister, who is five and a half years older than I am. We didn't get along well, and I felt that I had no privacy. So books were my privacy, because no one could join me in a book, no one could comment on the action or make fun of it. I used to spend hours reading in the bathroom -- and we only had one bathroom in our small apartment!

Bathroom, Book, Fun, Privacy, Reading, Used

I didn't write professionally at first. It took me nine years to get anything published. At the beginning I mostly wrote picture books, which were rejected by every children's book publisher in America. The first book of mine to be accepted for publication was ELLA ENCHANTED, and not one but two publishers wanted it. That day, April 17, 1996, was one of the happiest in my life.

Book, Children, Ella, Nine, Publisher, Writing

If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em.

Beginnings, Bores You, Ems, Skip, Terrify, Writing

Although we didn't invite Lucinda, she arrived anyway-with a gift. "No need," Char and I chimed together. "Remember when you were a squirrel," Mandy said.

Chimed, Needs, Remember, Squirrel, Squirrels, Together

Luck was with me. I saw no spiders. Luck was against me. I saw no specters.

Against, Luck, Saw, Saws, Specters, Spiders