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  • #1
    Brandon Mull
    “Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.”
    Brandon Mull, Keys to the Demon Prison
    tags: luck

  • #2
    Eoin Colfer
    “That, as my cousin Nord would say, is where my improvised lie falls apart.”
    Eoin Colfer, The Last Guardian

  • #3
    Jonathan Stroud
    “I wasn't pretty, but as my mother once said, prettiness wasn't my profession.”
    Jonathan Stroud, The Screaming Staircase

  • #4
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “You see, but you do not observe.”
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia

  • #5
    Derek Landy
    “And then the Necromancers pulled out their sub-atomic machine guns.”
    Derek Landy, Death Bringer

  • #7
    Derek Landy
    “She glared at him. “I'm not weird like that. I'm good weird. I'm cool weird.”
    “Yes,” he said doubtfully. “Yes, you are.”
    Derek Landy, Playing with Fire
    tags: humor

  • #11
    John Flanagan
    “Erak. The one they call the Oberjarl," the Arridi answered him.
    Impulsively, Axl took a pace forward, raising his ax threateningly.
    You'll have to go through the rest of us to take him!" he shouted defiantly.
    Well done, Axl," he said. "You've just told them I'm here.”
    John Flanagan, Erak's Ransom

  • #14
    Brandon Mull
    “What you call idiot points, I call awesome dollars. ~Seth”
    Brandon Mull, Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary

  • #15
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
    Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

  • #16
    Jane Goodall
    “The greatest danger to our future is apathy.”
    Jane Goodall

  • #18
    Eoin Colfer
    “Listen to me, goblin. You're stupid, let's accept that and move on.”
    Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code

  • #19
    Eoin Colfer
    “We're being lead by an idiot with a crayon.”
    Eoin Colfer, The Arctic Incident

  • #24
    Derek Landy
    “You look angry," he said.
    "You put me on hold."
    "For a very good reason."
    "You put me," she said very, very slowly, "on hold.”
    Derek Landy, Kingdom of the Wicked

  • #25
    René Descartes
    “I think; therefore I am.”
    Rene Descartes

  • #25
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

  • #26
    Eoin Colfer
    “Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”
    Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

  • #27
    Robert Frost
    “These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep.”
    Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

  • #28
    John Green
    “I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
    John Green, Paper Towns

  • #30
    Derek Landy
    “Valkyrie patted Fletcher’s arm. “Don’t worry,” she said. “If the bad man comes, I’ll protect you.”
    “If the bad man comes,” Fletcher responded, “I’ll bravely give out a high-pitched scream to distract him. I may even bravely faint, to give him a false sense of security. That will be your signal to strike.”
    “We make a great team.”
    “Just don’t forget to stand in front of me the whole time,” he said.”
    Derek Landy, Death Bringer

  • #32
    C.S. Lewis
    “I wish she would grow up. She wasted all her school time wanting to be the age she is now, and she'll waste all the rest of her life trying to stay that age. He whole idea is to race on to the silliest time of one's life as quick as she can and then stop there as long as she can.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle

  • #33
    Derek Landy
    “I need a weapon,” Valkyrie muttered.
    “You’re an Elemental with a Necromancer ring, trained in
    a variety of martial arts by some of the best fighters in the world,” Skulduggery pointed out. “I’m fairly certain that makes you a weapon.”
    “I mean a weapon you hold. You have a gun, Tanith has a sword... I want a stick.”
    “I’ll buy you a stick for Christmas.”
    Derek Landy, Mortal Coil

  • #34
    Derek Landy
    “The man had a smooth voice, like velvet. “I’m Detective Inspector Me. Unusual name, I know. My family were incredibly
    narcissistic. I’m lucky I escaped with any degree of humility at all, to be honest, but then I’ve always managed to exceed expectations. You are Kenny Dunne, are you not?”
    “I am.”
    “Just a few questions for you, Mr Dunne. Or Kenny. Can I call you Kenny? I feel we’ve become friends these past few seconds. Can I call you Kenny?”
    “Sure,” Kenny said, slightly baffled.
    “Thank you. Thank you very much. It’s important you feel comfortable around me, Kenny. It’s important we build up a level of trust. That way I’ll catch you completely unprepared when I
    suddenly accuse you of murder.”
    Derek Landy, Death Bringer

  • #35
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #36
    John Flanagan
    “It's surprising how often history is decided by something as trival as bad shellfish.”
    John Flanagan, The Battle for Skandia

  • #37
    Emily Hahn
    “Nobody said not to go.”
    Emily Hahn

  • #38
    Rick Riordan
    “I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts -Leo Valdez”
    Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

  • #39
    D.H. Lawrence
    “I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself”
    D.H. Lawrence

  • #40
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “What have I got in my pocket?" he said aloud. He was talking to himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully upset.
    "Not fair! not fair!" he hissed. "It isn't fair, my precious, is it, to ask us what it's got in it's nassty little pocketsess?”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

  • #41
    Rick Riordan
    “Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.”
    Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

  • #42
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!”
    J.R.R Tolkein



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