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  • #1
    Max Nowaz
    “Where’s my uncle?” she asked.
    “I don’t know who your uncle is, but if it as the guy who owned this place before I bought it, then he’s pushing up daisies.”
    “But it can’t be, he’s still young.”
    Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

  • #2
    Yvonne Korshak
    “Part of the hem floated loose. She spun around again—the fabric tightened like wool on a spindle. She breathed in fear. The boat was farther away. She swung her head around—so was the shore.”
    Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

  • #3
    Jasper Fforde
    “You want me to spy on a National Colour operative?'
    'Wow,' she said, 'you got it. I thought I was going to have to explain that one for a lot longer.”
    Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey

  • #4
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “I wasn't big on family gatherings. Too many intimate strangers. I smiled a lot, but really I never knew what to say.”
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

  • #5
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “Mr. Lynn gave her one of his considering looks. "People are strange," he said. "Usually they're much stranger than you think. Start from there and you'll never be unpleasantly surprised. Do you fancy doughnuts?”
    Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock

  • #6
    Nikolas Schreck
    “If you are drawn to the left hand path, it's usually because you've had some kind of life experience that has shocked you, awakened you.”
    Nikolas Schreck

  • #7
    Stephen Crane
    “nothing is so much to be regretted as the universe.”
    Stephen Crane, The Third Violet

  • #8
    Cassandra Clare
    “Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #9
    Heath Sommer
    “You have a peace about you. You have a wisdom. You have a way of living life that kicks my butt and pushes me around, and it beats me out of my idiocy and narrow-mindness. You, Addy, you, have shown me what life is all about”
    Heath Sommer

  • #10
    Mary Norton
    “Keep your warm hearts, your gentleness, and your courage. These will do just as well as magic.”
    Mary Norton, Bedknob and Broomstick

  • #11
    John Hersey
    “the trackers, an even more pathetic collection of tatterdemalions than our porters of the morning, began to attach themselves resignedly to the lines. They had such sad faces!”
    John Hersey, A Single Pebble

  • #12
    Gary Paulsen
    “If you keep walking back from good luck, he thought, you’ll come to bad luck.”
    Gary Paulsen, Hatchet

  • #13
    Margaret Wise Brown
    “If you become a bird and fly away from me, I will be a tree that you come home to.”
    Margaret Wise Brown, The Runaway Bunny



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