"This qoute from Book of a Thousand Days really struck me: "I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled along. Strange how everything below can be such death and chaos and pain while above the sky is peace, sweet blue gentleness. I heard a shaman say once, the Ancestors want our souls to be like the blue sky."
— Shannon Hale

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

"Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul."
— Shannon Hale (Book of a Thousand Days)

"You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky."
— Shannon Hale (Book of a Thousand Days)

"He had a dashing smile. It nearly dashed right off his face."
— Shannon Hale (Austenland)

"Nom, do say something funny so she can admire!"
— Shannon Hale (River Secrets)

"All I've ever wanted was to be near you."
— Shannon Hale (Enna Burning)

"I know I would crumble if I lost you."
— Shannon Hale (Enna Burning)

"Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone."
— Shannon Hale (Book of a Thousand Days)

""What are you doing?"
"Ya!" said Jane, whirling around, her hands held up menacingly.
It was Mr. Nobley with coat, hat, and cane, watching her with wide eyes. Jane took several quick (but oh so casual) steps away from Martin's window.
"Um, did I just say, 'Ya'?"
"You just said 'Ya,'" he confirmed. "If I am not mistaken, it was a battle cry, warning that you were about to attack me."
"I, uh..." She stopped to laugh. "I wasn't aware until this precise and awkward moment that when startled in a startled in a strange place, my instincts would have me pretend to be a ninja.""
— Shannon Hale (Austenland)

"She was born Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, and she did not open her eyes for three days."
— Shannon Hale (The Goose Girl)

"Yes, we'll yell,'Help, help us, goose girl, and bring the terrifying legion of warrior geese.'"
— Shannon Hale (The Goose Girl)

"Jack "Hey, times are tough, and thirty gold coins can do a lot of good. But I guess you wouldn't know about needing money, since you grew up like a little princ..."
(Rapunzel glares)
Jack continues "Prin... soner. I mean, prisoner! A prisoner in a tower, such a shame, that.""
— Shannon Hale

"WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE
RAPUNZEL

For horse thieving, kidnapping, jail breaking, and using her hair in a manner other than nature intended!

REWARD"
— Shannon Hale (Rapunzel's Revenge)

"Razo knew he was best at nothing, except maybe cramming two cherries into a single nostril."
— Shannon Hale (River Secrets)

"...all things speak, in their way, don't they?"
— Shannon Hale (The Goose Girl)

"Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice."
— Shannon Hale

""What should I say? That I like him so much it hurts?""
— Shannon Hale (Princess Academy)

"Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)

"Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)

"So what? All writers are lunatics!"
— Cornelia Funke (Inkspell)

" And there stood Basta with his foot already on another dead body, smiling. Why not? He had hit his target, and it was the target he had been aiming for all along: Dustfinger’s heart, his stupid heart. It broke in two as he held Farid in his arms, it simply broke in two, although he had taken such good care of it all these years."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkspell)

"Cheeseface."
— Cornelia Funke

"Mo could paint pictures in the empty air with his voice alone."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)

"A library is infinity under a roof."
— Gail Carson Levine

""Do you like to slide?" His voice was eage.
Stair rails! Did he suspect me? I forced a sigh. "No, Majesty. I'm terrrified of heights."
"Oh." His poite tone had returned.
....
"I wish I could enjoy it. This fear of heights is an affliction."
He nodded, a show of sympathy but not much interest. I was losing him.
"Especially," I added, "as I've grown taller.""
— Gail Carson Levine (Ella Enchanted)

"Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad."
— Frances Hardinge (Fly by Night)

""Where is your sense of patriotism?"

"I keep it hid away safe, along with my sense of trust, Mr. Clent. I don't use 'em much in case they get scratched.""
— Frances Hardinge (Fly by Night)

"Sometimes, when I clean a kill, I feed Buttercup the entrails. He has stopped hissing at me.

Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love."
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)

"Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it."
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)

"Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
Forget your woes and let your troubles lay
And when it's morning again, they'll wash away
Here it's safe, here it's warm
Here the daisies guard you from every harm
Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true
Here is the place where I love you."
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)

""Well, I knew that goat would be a little gold mine," I say.
"Yes, of course I was referring to that, not the lasting joy you gave your sister you love so much you took her place in the reaping," says Peeta drily."
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)

" Upon this crown my pledge I give,
To my last breath,I hold this choice,
I will your unjust deaths avenge,
All here who died without a voice."
— Suzanne Collins (Gregor and the Marks of Secret)

"The War Has Been Declared.
Your Ally Been Ensnared.
It Is Now Or it Is Never.
Break The Code Or Die Forever.


Time Is Running Out
Running out
Running out


To the Warrior give my blade
By his hand your fate is made
But do not forget the ticking
Or the clicking, clicking, clicking
While a rat's toung may be flicking
With its feet it does the tricking
For the paw and not the jaw
Makes the Code of Claw


Time is stamding still
Standing still
Standing still


Since the princess is the key
To unlock the treachery
She cannot avoid the matching or the scratching, scratching, scratching
When a secret plot is hatching
In the naming is the catching
What she saw, it is the flaw
Of the Code of Claw


Time is turning back
Turning back
Turning back


When the monster's blood is Spilled
When the Warrior has been Killed
You must not ingore the rapping
Or the tapping, tapping, tapping
If the Gnawers find you napping
You will rot while they are mapping
Out the law of thouse who gnaw
In the Code of Claw"
— Suzanne Collins (Gregor the Overlander Box Set)

"Ripred sighed. 'I suppose so. You and I seem to end up doing everything. Shall we say four members for each delegation?'
'Why not?' Luxa said. 'Four can be as stupid as ten. No need to crowd the room.'
Ripred laughed. 'You know, I think you an I are going to get on famously.'
"
— Suzanne Collins (Gregor and the Code of Claw)

"'We could do it, you know'
'What?'
'Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.' "
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)

"If you were me, then I'd be you, and if I were you, then I'd hide somewhere far away."
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code)

"Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know."
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl)

"If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written."
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl)

"'Hey, look - your *girlfriend* is saying something.'
Artemis had a vast mental reserve of scathing comebacks at his disposal, but none of them covered girlfriend insults. He wasn't even sure if it was an insult. And if it was, who was being insulted? Him or the girl? "
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony)

"A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums."
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code)

"You know you're in trouble when your own imagination starts punishing you."
— Eoin Colfer

"Foaly: Anyone see you come in here?
Holly: The FBI, CIA, NSA, DEA, MI6. Oh, and the EIB.
Foaly: The EIB?
Holly: (smirking) Everyone in the building."
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl 1-3.)

"I don't like lollipops.

-Artemis Fowl Jr."
— Eoin Colfer

"You wouldn't know a clue if it danced in front of you with a T-Shirt that read 'I'm a clue'"
— Eoin Colfer

"I never tell anybody exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared."
— Eoin Colfer

"If it looks like a Dwarf, and it smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf or a latrine wearing dungerees."
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony)

"No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world."
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony)

"Lollipop!"
— Eoin Colfer

"Doobie always wanted to see the badge. It was shiny, and he was eight."
— Eoin Colfer (Half-Moon Investigations)