Ella Enchanted Book Quotes

If I couldn't sleep, I could read.

My grandmother warned that too much reading would ruin my eyesight, but I couldn’t hear her over the chatter of characters.

quiet. But when no one was looking I would slip into Ella’s room and steal a book and take it back of the barn and try to read it. Usually I could not decipher enough words to make the story have meaning. I burned to learn to read novels and I tortured my mother into telling me the meaning of every strange word I saw, not because the word itself had any value, but because it was the gateway to a forbidden and enchanting land. One