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  • #1
    Natsuki Takaya
    “I wish I could've lived my life without making any wrong turns. But that's impossible. A path like that doesn't exist. We fail. We trip. We get lost. We make mistakes. And little by little, one step at a time, we push forward. It's all we can do. On our own two feet.”
    Natsuki Takaya, Fruits Basket, Vol. 21

  • #2
    Eoin Colfer
    “Artemis: (shocked) Why, Doctor? This is a sensitive area. For all you know I could be suffering from depression.
    Doctor Po: I suppose you could. Is that the case?
    Artemis: (head in hands) It's my mother, Doctor.
    Doctor Po: Yes?
    Artemis: My mother, she...
    Doctor Po: Your mother, yes?
    Artemis: She forces me to endure this ridiculous therapy when the school's so-called counsellors are little better than misguided do-gooders with degrees.”
    Eoin Colfer, The Arctic Incident

  • #3
    Natsuki Takaya
    “We have just witnessed a classic example of what I like to call 'misdirected rage'. I believe the technical term is being an ass.”
    Natsuki Takaya

  • #4
    Heather Brewer
    “Whoever had decided that school should start so early in the morning and last all day long needed to be hunted down and forced to watch hours of educational televison without the aid of caffine.”
    Heather Brewer, Eighth Grade Bites

  • #5
    Eoin Colfer
    “That was horrible. Horrible. That poor little guy."
    Pex was unrepentant. "Yeah, well, he asked for it. Calling us ... all those things."
    But---buried alive! That's like in that horror movie. Y'know -- the one with all the horror."
    I think I saw that one. With all the words going up on the screen at the end?"
    Yeah, that was it. Tell you the truth, those words kinda ruined it for me.”
    Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code

  • #6
    Eoin Colfer
    “Artemis simple-toon”
    Eoin Colfer, The Artemis Fowl Files

  • #7
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #8
    J.K. Rowling
    “Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business.
    Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git.
    Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor.
    Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #9
    J.K. Rowling
    “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #10
    Eoin Colfer
    “Orion:"Oh, how I pray that dragon will turn 'round so that I may smite it."
    Foaly: "Smite it with what? Your secret birthmark?"
    Orion: "Don't you mock my birthmark, which I may or may not have.”
    Eoin Colfer, The Atlantis Complex

  • #11
    Alexandre Dumas fils
    “The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
    Alexandre Dumas-fils

  • #12
    C.E.M. Joad
    “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
    C.E.M. Joad

  • #13
    Terry Pratchett
    “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
    Terry Pratchett, Jingo

  • #14
    Terry Pratchett
    “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #15
    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #16
    Albert Einstein
    “Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #17
    Natsuki Takaya
    “Ayame: "Yuki, let's deepen the bond between us brothers!"
    Yuki: "Before you can do that I'll drown you in the deepest part of that lake."
    Ayame: "As long as we spend time together."
    Yuki: "On second thought, go drown yourself.”
    Natsuki Takaya

  • #18
    Sherrilyn Kenyon
    “Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.”
    Sherrilyn Kenyon, Acheron

  • #19
    Rick Riordan
    “Leo: Rainbows. Very macho.
    Annabeth: Butch is our best equestrian, he gets along great with the pegasi.
    Leo: Rainbows, ponies...
    Butch: I'm gonna toss you off this chariot.”
    Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero

  • #20
    Rick Riordan
    “Jason scratched his head. "You named him Festus? You know that in Latin, ‘festus’ means ‘happy’? You want us to ride off to save the world on Happy the Dragon?”
    Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero

  • #21
    Lewis Carroll
    “I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #22
    Lewis Carroll
    “And how do you know that you're mad? "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?" I suppose so, said Alice. "Well then," the Cat went on, "you see a dog growls when it's angry, and wags it's tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #23
    Walt Disney Company
    “Those who are clever, who have a brain, never understand anything.”
    Walt Disney Company

  • #24
    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #25
    Natsuki Takaya
    “I want to believe that I'm not wrong. I want to believe that life isn't full of darkness. Even if storms come to pass, the sun will shine again. No matter how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me.”
    Natsuki Takaya

  • #26
    Natsuki Takaya
    “I'm still willing to continue living with the burden of this memory. Even though this is a painful memory, even though this memory makes my heart ache. Sometimes I almost want to ask God to let me forget this memory. But as long as I try to be strong and not run away, doing my best, there will finally be someday...there will be finally be someday I can overcome this painful memory. I believe I can. I believe I can do it. There is no memory that can be forgotten, there is not that kind of memory. Always in my heart.”
    Natsuki Takaya

  • #27
    Matt Groening
    “Of course I’ve gone mad with power! Have you ever tried going mad without power? It’s boring and no one listens to you!
    — Russ Cargill”
    Matt Groening

  • #28
    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    Thomas A. Edison

  • #29
    Cassandra Clare
    “You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. When the egg hatches, the baby cuckoo pushes the other baby birds out of the nest. The poor parent birds work themselves to death trying to find enough food to feed the enormous cuckoo child who has murdered their babies and taken their places."
    "Enormous?" said Jace. "Did you just call me fat?"
    "It was an analogy."
    "I am not fat.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

  • #30
    Banksy
    “Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.”
    Banksy, Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall



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