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Category: Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

And have your mother put my head on a stake? Do you have any notion what that would do to my handsome good looks?

humor, obedience, parenting

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Sometimes,well,all the time,I can’t think of what to say because I’m so dumb and stuff,and then maybe I think of it like five days later.

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

And it occurred to me that the reason she makes it work, probably, is because she’s so comfortable with herself. And you know, that’s not such a bad notion, in the whole life-lesson business. Being comfortable with yourself. Because if you’re not okay with who you are, why should anyone else be?

self-confidence, self-image

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

I ultimately decided to hold my tongue and settle instead for the comfort of ignorance. Not knowing the truth, I retained hope, and that hope I held like a smooth warm stone against my heart.

comfort, grief, hope, loss

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

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.

magic, medicine, princess, war

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

I hate it when people make fun of me and it turns out they’re right.

life, people, so-true, things-that-happen

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

It kind of struck me how great it would be to go out with a guy that size. And if you, you know, got tired of dating him, you could always use him as a house or something.

dating, funny, humor, humour, size

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

I could not but wonder at the queen’s unprecedented civility, until I realized with a flush of shame that it was my own improved behavior that motivated hers. So it is that we in life determine our own treatment.

inspirational-life, life-lessons, realizations

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

When you don’t talk, there’s a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.

relationships, talking

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

She says you’re not truly human until you’ve had your heart broken and you’ve broken someone’s heart.

heart, human, love

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

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.

advice, happily-ever-after, humor, marriage

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

I ultimately decided to hold my tongue and settle instead for the comfort of ignorance. Not knowing the truth, I retained hope, and that hope I held like a smooth warm stone against my heart.

comfort, grief, hope, loss