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“I was just slipping my pajama top over my head when I heard Ren bellow, “YOU ate ALL of my peanut . . . butter . . . COOKIES?”
― Colleen Houck, Tiger's Quest

“... A hot shower is going to feel heavenly."

He raised an eyebrow. "Would you like to go first."

"No, you go ahead."

His eyes twinkled as he regarded me, "It would be more heavenly if you told me you wanted to conserve water."

My mouth opened in shock. "Kishan!"

He winked at me. "I didn't think so. Can't blame a guy for trying.”
― Colleen Houck, Tiger's Quest

“I spent the rest of that day brainstorming. How do you catch a very old, very alert tiger by surprise? Use his weaknesses: food, feminine wiles, poetry, and over-protectiveness. The poor guy didn't stand a chance.”
― Colleen Houck, Tiger's Quest

“You said parachute. You think we're going to parachute out of here?"

"Yep."

"I don't think so."

"Ah, come on. Tigers aren't afraid of heights, are they?"

"This isn't about heights. This is about being extremely high up in a tree and hurtling out bodies into oblivion based on a strange fabric that you now claim is a parachute.”
― Colleen Houck, Tiger's Quest

“By the time I got to the bottom, I understood what Guthrie ment when he shouted LIBERO! It was a celebration of being alive.”
― Sharon Creech, Bloomability

“My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can't help that. But how you handle it and how it makes you feel, that's up to you.”
― Elise Broach, Shakespeare's Secret

“I was full of struggles! And that made me so happy: If I was full of struggles, maybe I was interesting!”
― Sharon Creech, Bloomability

“My mom says that when it rains you never feel like you should be anywhere but home.”
― Elise Broach, Shakespeare's Secret

“But really, there are no coincidences. Coincidences are just other people's choices, plans you don't know about.”
― Elise Broach, Shakespeare's Secret

“There is a difference between giving into something and accepting it.”
― Elise Broach, Shakespeare's Secret

“To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.”
― Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved

“If you could hold your nose to avoid a stink, or close your eyes to cut out a sight, why not shut off your brain to avoid a thought?”
― Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved

“He accepted what each moment brough him, and never troubled himself with matters that were outside his control.”
― William Nicholson, The Wind Singer

“You are the shuckiest shuck faced shuck in the world!”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

“I've been shucked and gone to heaven.”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

“Kill me. If you’ve ever been my friend, kill me.”
― James Dashner, The Death Cure

“Awww," Minho said. "That's almost as sweet as that time she slammed the end of a spear into your shuck face.”
― James Dashner, The Death Cure

“The betrayal meant he couldn't trust her anymore, and his heart told him he couldn't forgive her.”
― James Dashner, The Scorch Trials

“Sometimes they do things to make me do the opposite of what they think, I think, they think, I am going to do.”
― James Dashner, The Death Cure

“Dude, you tried to slice my you-know-what's off!"
Thomas laughed, something that he hadn't done in a long time. He welcomed it happily. "Too bad I didn't. Could've saved the world from future little Minhos.”
― James Dashner, The Death Cure

“You get lazy, you get sad. Start givin' up. Plain and simple.”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

“WICKED is good”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

“Why must it be in human nature to hear one thing but to believe in another?"

"Because we want things to get better," I said. "Otherwise we would all give up.”
― F.E. Higgins, The Black Book of Secrets

“What is life if not a gamble?”
― F.E. Higgins, The Black Book of Secrets

“How it saddens me to see how quickly men turn against each other.”
― F.E. Higgins, The Black Book of Secrets

“Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“Where did you go to, if I may ask?' said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along.
To look ahead,' said he.
And what brought you back in the nick of time?'
Looking behind,' said he.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“What does your heart tell you? ”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

“It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt,
It lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills,
It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again