Nelson Coar

“Charlie said your friend’s disappeared,” chirped Wendy.
“No, he hasn’t.” Adam denied it. “He’s in the house. Now, look, what’s all this you’ve been telling them?”
“Nothing, I haven’t told them anything.” Charlie looked drunk.
“He said you’ve turned your friend into a crayfish,” insisted Wendy.
“He’s always making little jokes like that, and you fell for it. How am I supposed to do that, for heaven’s sake?” Adam was angry.
“With your little book you found. What’s that under your arm?”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

“We Are brothers, tied by blood, in our veins, what we spill. But it is a deadly secret that will forever bind us.”
― Tina Traverse, Destiny of the Vampire

“joyous”
― Mary Norton, The Borrowers Aloft: Plus the short tale Poor Stainless – A Classic Middle Grade Chapter Book About Family Adventures for Kids

“Getting down a steep face can often be more difficult than getting up it.”
― Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One: The iconic novel from the multimillion-copy bestselling author