"Hey, ah, does anyone want a cookie or something? Oh yeah. A cookie. That would make everything better. Dunked in a shot of tequila , maybe? Or better yet, just the bottle? Yeah, that ought to do it."
— Kim Harrison (Every Which Way But Dead)

"Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy."
— Charlaine Harris

"I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones)

"Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal."
— Neil Gaiman

"How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline.
"I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my own mother's grave."
"Does she have a grave?" asked Coraline.
"Oh yes," said the other mother. "I put her in there myself. And when I found her trying to crawl out, I put her back."
— Neil Gaiman (Coraline)

"She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars."
— Neil Gaiman (Stardust)

"Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time."
— Neil Gaiman (Anansi Boys)

"When I look into your eyes, one word leaps to my mind every time: Forever."
— Lara Adrian (Veil of Midnight)

"Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research."
— Walter Moers (The City of Dreaming Books)

"Wednesdays were the best thing about Atlantis. The middle of the week was a traditional holiday there. Everyone stopped work and celebrated the fact that half the week was over."
— Walter Moers (The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear)

"One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror."
— Jonathan Stroud (The Amulet of Samarkand)

"According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable, manly, or defiant you are, at the end of the day you're also dead. Which is a little too permanent for my liking."
— Jonathan Stroud (Ptolemy's Gate)

"-You're pretty hard-boiled, Tinker Bell.
-Call me that name again and you'll be wondering how your bollocks wound up lodged in your windpipe--from below. Just because we don't get to your side of things much anymore doesn't mean we don't know anything. 'If you believe in fairies, clap your hands!' If you believe in fairies, kiss my rosy pink arse is more like it. Now are you going to shut your gob or not?
"
— Tad Williams (The War Of The Flowers)

"Check out that one at the end. He's taken the form of a footstool. Weird...but somehow I like his style."

"That is a footstool."
— Jonathan Stroud (The Golem's Eye)

"Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price."
— Jonathan Stroud (The Bartimaeus Trilogy Boxed Set)

"Hey, we've all got problems, chum. I'm overly talkative. You look like a field of buttercups in a suit."
— Jonathan Stroud (The Golem's Eye)

""But I do get afraid. It's just that fear makes me sort of . . . angry and resentful, and I bite back at it. It's hard to describe."

"It isn't hard to describe, you idiot," Aud said. "It's called courage.""
— Jonathan Stroud (Heroes of the Valley)

""By Tink's diaphram...!""
— Kim Harrison

"Jenks enthusiastically leaned against the counter and opened the box. Bypassing the plastic knife, he broke off about a third of it and took a huge bite. Ivy watched, appalled, and I shrugged. His mouth moving as he hummed, Jenks finished unpacking the sacks. I was half dead, Ivy was whoring herself to keep me safe, but Jenks was okay as long as he had chocolate."
— Kim Harrison (A Fistful of Charms)

"'And then there are the rare ones who know love, who understand it. Who freely give of themselves, demanding only a return of that love,that trust.'"
— Kim Harrison (Every Which Way But Dead)

"'You look like the vamp who bled the cat.'"
— Kim Harrison (Every Which Way But Dead)

"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living"
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

"I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else. "
— Jonathan Safran Foer

"What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sounds of our hearts through little speakers, which could be in the pouches of our overalls? When you skateboarded down the street at night you could hear everyone's heartbeat, and they could hear yours, sort of like sonar. One weird thing is, I wonder if everyone's hearts would start to beat at the same time, like how women who live together have their menstrual periods at the same time, which I know about, but don't really want to know about. That would be so weird, except that the place in the hospital where babies are born would sound like a crystal chandelier in a houseboat, because the babies wouldn't have had time to match up their heartbeats yet. And at the finish line at the end of the New York City Marathon it would sound like war."
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

"I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live."
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

"I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me?""
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

"Freedom is just chaos whith better lighting"
— Alan Dean Foster (To the Vanishing Point)

"The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing."
— Alan Dean Foster

"If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy."
— Alan Dean Foster

"He is the cheese to my macaroni."
— Diablo Cody (Juno: The Shooting Script)

"In my opinon, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with."
— Diablo Cody (Juno: The Shooting Script)

"Shoulda gone to China. They give away babies like free iPods. They put them in guns and shoot them out at sporting events. "
— Diablo Cody (Juno: The Shooting Script)

"Juno MacGuff: You can never have too many of your favorite one calorie breath mints."
— Diablo Cody (Juno: The Shooting Script)

"Vodka Redbull: Upper meets downer in an effervescent hybrid of bubble gum and junkie piss"
— Diablo Cody (Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper)

"Kalte Zugluft macht den Hals starr und das Blickfeld klein. Man sieht nur geradeaus zum vermeintlichen Ziel und nicht zur Seite, wo die Augenblicke stattfinden, für die es sich lohnt, die Fahrt zu bestreiten"
— Daniel Glattauer (Alle sieben Wellen)