"I'm Through with playing by the rules of someone else's game."
— Wicked

"Is this a kissing book?"
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

"Inigo Montoya: That Vizzini, he can *fuss*.
Fezzik: Fuss, fuss... I think he like to scream at *us*.
Inigo Montoya: Probably he means no *harm*.
Fezzik: He's really very short on *charm*.
Inigo Montoya: You have a great gift for rhyme.
Fezzik: Yes, yes, some of the time.
Vizzini: Enough of that.
Inigo Montoya: Fezzik, are there rocks ahead?
Fezzik: If there are, we all be dead.
Vizzini: No more rhyming now, I mean it.
Fezzik: Anybody want a peanut?
Vizzini: DYEEAAHHHHHH."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

"Inigo: You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you.

Westley: You seem a decent fellow. I hate to die. "
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

"Have fun storming the castle!"
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

"Books may well be the only true magic."
— Alice Hoffman

"It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction."
— Alice Hoffman (Practical Magic)

"It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we truly are, far more than our abilities."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

"The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong."
— Laura Ingalls Wilder

"I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."
— Laura Ingalls Wilder

"Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins."
— Sharon Creech (Walk Two Moons)

"Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad."
— Sharon Creech (Absolutely Normal Chaos)

"Off with their heads!"
— Frank Beddor (The Looking Glass Wars)

""I tell you to think black thoughts and you come up with that?!" the lieutenant had screamed. "Is a guinea pig bad? Do you consider a guinea pig the representation of all that is evil?"

"Maybe... if it's an evil guinea pig.""
— Frank Beddor (The Looking Glass Wars)

"Quite often somebody will say, 'What year do your books take place?' and the only answer I can give is, in childhood."
— Beverly Cleary

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."
— C.S. Lewis

"We read to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."
— Roald Dahl

"It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward."
— Louis Sachar

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."
— Madeleine L'Engle

"The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things."
— Lois Lowry