"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

"THE FIRST TEN LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL

1. We are here to help you.
2. You will have time to get to your class before the bell rings.
3. The dress code will be enforced.
4. No smoking is allowed on school grounds.
5. Our football team will win the championship this year.
6. We expect more of you here.
7. Guidance counselors are always available to listen.
8. Your schedule was created with you in mind.
9. Your locker combination is private.
10. These will be the years you look back on fondly.

TEN MORE LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL

1. You will use algebra in your adult lives.
2. Driving to school is a privilege that can be taken away.
3. Students must stay on campus during lunch.
4. The new text books will arrive any day now.
5. Colleges care more about you than your SAT scores.
6. We are enforcing the dress code.
7. We will figure out how to turn off the heat soon.
8. Our bus drivers are highly trained professionals.
9. There is nothing wrong with summer school.
10. We want to hear what you have to say."
— Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak)

"My glass is half empty.
My glass is half full.
What’s the big difference? Either way you still have half a glass of water.

-Daniel, from Reawakened Soul"
— Kenzie

"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like."
— Lemony Snicket

"Did you seriously just stamp your foot? I thought girls just did that on TV."
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

"How do you feel, Georgie?" whispered Mrs. Weasley.

George's fingers groped for the side of his head.

"Saintlike," he murmured.

"What's wrong with him?" croaked Fred, looking terrified. "Is his mind affected?"

"Saintlike," repeated George, opening his eyes and looking up at his brother. "You see...I'm HOLEY, Fred, geddit?"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until your forehead bleeds."
— Douglas Adams

"Life is not a straight path; it’s full of twists and turns. You never know where you’re going to end up tomorrow, so spend each day traveling, not to find the right way, but to find a way."
— Kenzie

"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn."
— Benjamin Franklin

"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid"
— Benjamin Franklin

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
— Benjamin Franklin

"I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. "
— Garrison Keillor

"When in doubt, look intelligent."
— Garrison Keillor

"A book is a gift you can open again and again."
— Garrison Keillor

"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

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

"When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes."
— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy."
— Albert Einstein

"Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it."
— Rodney Dangerfield

"Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours."
— Yogi Berra

"Fall down again, Bella?'
'No, Emmett, I punched a werewolf in the face.'"
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

"I hear voices in my head and you're worried that you're the freak."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"'Do I dazzle you?'

'Frequently.'"
— Stephenie Meyer

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

"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)

"What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?"
— Apostle Paul, Servant of Jesus Christ

"God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life"
— John 3:16

"Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: But a woman who fears the Lord,
She shall be praised."
— Proverbs 31:30

"As you wish."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

"They would all be sorry... particularly the duck."
— Angie Sage

"'Use your head, Sep. Loads of wolverines. Hanging around waiting for super. Gtting excited. eating mint blasts. so what do you think they do?'
'it must be here. they can't have eaten that... i dunno, Nik, what do they do?'
'POO.'"
— Angie Sage (Flyte)

"Your ears you keep, so that every shriek of every child shall be yours to cherish—every babe that weeps in fear at your approach, every woman that cries ‘Dear God, what is that thing?’ will reverberate forever with your perfect ears."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

"Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

"Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

"And people make fun of me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?"
— L.M. Montgomery

"I hate when people try to kill me. It's just so rude!"
— Nancy Drew

"Sometimes love isn't fireworks, sometimes love just comes softly."
— Janette Oke (Love Comes Softly)

"The truth of God's love is not that He allows bad things to happen, it's his promise that he will be there with us--when they do."
— Janette Oke (Love Comes Softly)

"When you read you can have every adventure. In the pages of a book you can be anyone you ever dreamed of being... They can never tell you you're too young to slay the dragon -- because it all happens right here, where it's safe."
— Janette Oke (Love Comes Softly)

"I really like Septimus Heap. he is my favorite guy in the story. I should make you all read it."
— Angie Sage

"'Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.'"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes."
— C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia)

"To the glistening eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy the Valiant. To the great western woods, King Edmund the Just. To the radiant southern sun, Queen Susan the Gentle. And to the clear northern skies, I give you King Peter the Magnificent. Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia. May your wisdom grace us until the stars rain down from the heavens."
— C.S. Lewis (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

"If I could dream at all it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"So what you're saying is, I'm your brand of heroin?"
"You're exactly my brand of heroin."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies."
— Lemony Snicket (The Penultimate Peril)

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
— William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)