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David Levithan
“Too much. Too fast. Too intense. The glass soul falls to the ground and shatters into a thousand words. The invisible boy becomes visible, and all of a sudden, his emotions blast neon.”
David Levithan , Invisibility

Rick Yancey
“Nein, Will Henry, unser Feind ist die Furcht. Blindmachende, verstandtötende Furcht. Furcht zerstört die Wahrheit und vergiftet jede Klarheit, womit sie uns zu falschen Annahmen und irrationalen Schlussfolgerungen führt.”
Rick Yancey, The Monstrumologist

Kevin Dubrosky
“From a small piece of relevant evidence, sweeping assertions can be properly made about the true nature of the beast.”
Kevin Dubrosky, The Whale Vomit Method

Victor Serge
“You never depend only on yourself, you never live only for yourself, and you have to realize that our most intimate thought, that we most own, is bound by a thousand bonds to that of the world. And he who speaks, he who writes is essentially someone speaking for all those who are voiceless.”
Victor Serge, Memoirs of a Revolutionary

Alison Lurie
“The marriage is an emotional disaster, a failed adventure that has, inevitably, shrunk his view of himself and of the world; he is wiser, maybe, but at the expense of being that much sourer and sadder.”
Alison Lurie, Foreign Affairs

Alison Lurie
“Roo was his red flag, his declaration of independence—and in the beginning, the less comfortable his family and more conventional friends were with her, the better pleased he was. Now he feels shamed and enraged to realize that they had judged her more accurately than he. His father, for instance, held the unspoken but clearly evident opinion that Roo was not a lady.”
Alison Lurie, Foreign Affairs

Agatha Christie
“He was conscious of a new factor in her expression. She seemed to be thoughtfully summing him up.”
Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy