When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.
Catherine Gilbert MurdockTag: relationships talking
With that, I hurled the slipper at him, not caring if I caused his decapitation. (I did not.) Marshaling what little dignity I yet possessed, I stomped down the corridor - challenging indeed with one shoe - and around the corner. I lay awake for hours. The prince had no right, not one, to indict me so, and if I had held the slightest hope of the book's assistance, I would have climbed at once to my wizard room for a spell with which to punish him. Death, perhaps, or humiliation. A croaking frog would be nice, particularly a frog that retained Florian's dark eyes. I should keep it in a box and poke it occasionally with a stick; that would be satisfying indeed.
Catherine Gilbert MurdockTag: humor
And have your mother put my head on a stake? Do you have any notion what that would do to my handsome good looks?
Catherine Gilbert MurdockTag: humor parenting obedience
Despite all my public misconduct, in the past year, I had learned the Elemental spells, the Doppelschläferin, and the preparation and flying of a magic broom; I had survived two months as prisoner of war, saving the life of captain Johanne in the process; I had escaped the dungeons of Fortress Drachensbett, and after an arduous journey successfully reunited with my double, so preserving her, and all Montagne, from Prince Flonian's rapacity, I would somehow master the despicable art of being a princess.
Catherine Gilbert MurdockTag: war magic medicine princess
It was like he was in a contest to see who could do the least work, only he was the only contestant.
Catherine Gilbert MurdockTag: humor
Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase "happily ever after." Yet every couple I have ever known would agree that nothing about marriage is forever happy. There are moments of bliss, to be sure, and lengthy spans of satisfied companionship. Yet these come at no small effort, and the girl who reads such fiction dreaming her troubles will end ere she departs the altar is well advised to seek at once a rational women to set her straight.
Catherine Gilbert MurdockTag: humor advice marriage happily-ever-after
And I have to tell you, as tough as farming is, the idea of farming when you’re losing money year after year... that’s not life even, that’s like death. That’s eternal damnation.
Catherine Gilbert MurdockTag: real-life
How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was?
Catherine Gilbert MurdockSo what if Brian made me feel like fireworks were going off inside me. He could also make me feel like a big fat clod of heartsick dirt. It was like he could take any emotion I had and make it ten times stronger. Which is great when it's happiness but pretty darn awful if it's anything sad.
Catherine Gilbert MurdockOh. Listen, this is really hard for me . . . "
"What is?"
"You know. Being liked." I started to cry. I couldn't help it.
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