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Shannon Hale
“Sometimes things aren’t impossible the first time I try, because I don’t know they’re impossible yet. I probably couldn’t do it again, though.”
Shannon Hale, The Storybook of Legends

Emil Ferris
“Like I said, basements usually smell like surrealism. But kitchens and gardens almost always smell like impressionism.

Because our kitchen is part of a basement apartment, it smells like the early impressionism of Vincent Van Gogh - all big strokes of umber and ochre - a peppery greasy I-love-you smell.”
Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1

Emil Ferris
“Never let anyone's darkness provoke you into your own midnight.”
Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1

Kate DiCamillo
“Listen, said Beverly. Let me tell you something. There is no Very Friendly Animal Center. That cat is long gone.”
Kate DiCamillo, Raymie Nightingale

Julie Berry
“A toast," Smooth Kitty cried, feeling almost giddy, "to self-government. Saint Etheldreda's School for Young Ladies will be run by young ladies from this point forward. Hear, hear!" Great applause.

"To independence!" added Pocked Louise. "No fussy old widows telling us when not to speak, and how to set the spoons when an Earl's niece comes to supper. And telling us to leave scientific experiment to the men." Teacup toasts in support of Louise.

"To freedom!" chimed in Disgraceful Mary Jane. "No curfews and evil eyes and lectures on morals and propriety." Loud, if nervous, cheering.

"To womankind," proclaimed Stout Alice. "Each of us girls free to be what she wishes to be, without glum and crotchety Placketts trying to make us into what we're not." Tremendous excitement.

"To sisterhood," said Dear Roberta, "and standing by each other, no matter what.”
Julie Berry, The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place

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