Barbara Harper

“It was time for the mirror pep talk.
“Okay, Maggie,” I said to myself after my shower, wiping the steam off the medicine cabinet.
“You could eat these kids for breakfast. You won’t, though, because that would be cannibalistic and
wrong.”
― Robin Benway, Also Known As

“If Stanley and his father weren't always hopeful, then it wouldn't hurt so much every time their hopes were crushed”
― Louis Sachar, Holes

“Why did everyone like that story so much when it wasn't true? Why was everyone so eager to believe it? Was it because, in real life, ever after's generally stink?”
― Margaret Peterson Haddix, Just Ella

“I am nothing except this: a girl reborn of the deep ocean silence, meant for nothing but vengeance.”
― Carrie Ryan, Daughter of Deep Silence