"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

"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

"People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict."
— Lemony Snicket (The Grim Grotto)

"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude."
— Amy Tan

"Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward."
— Amy Tan (The Kitchen God's Wife)

"I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever."
— Amy Tan

"Every tree and plant in the medouw seemed to be dancing, those with average eyes would see as fixed and still."
— Rumiko Takahashi

"All that you touch
You Change.

All that you Change
Changes you.

The only lasting truth
is Change.

God
is Change.

EARTHSEED:THE BOOKS OF LIVING"
— Octavia E. Butler (Parable of the Sower)

"I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell."
— Octavia E. Butler

"All struggles are essentially power struggles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially power struggles,and most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together."
— Octavia E. Butler

"If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid.
(a Shin'a'in saying)"
— Mercedes Lackey (Owlknight)

"Give your enemy a face, If he is human, do not dehumanize him. Know him and know why he is your enemy. If your enemy is within you, understand what it is and why you are afraid. Put a face on your fear. When you understand it, and it is no longer vague and shapeless, you will find that your fear is no longer so formidable."
— Mercedes Lackey (Brightly Burning)

"Read to Me

Read to me riddles
and read to me rhymes,
read to me stories
of magical times.

Read to me tales
about castles and kings,
read to me stories
of fabulous things.

Read to me pirates,
and read to me knights,
read to me dragons
and dragon-back flights.

Read to me spaceships
and cowboys and then
when you are finished-
please read them again!
"
— Jane Yolen

"Well,of all the bacon-brained,sapskulled,squirish,buffle-headed nodcocks!" -Kim"
— Patricia C. Wrede (Magician's Ward)

"When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning."
— Neil Gaiman (Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions)

"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)

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones)

"DWIGHT:

Stay smart. Stay cool. It's time to prove to you're friends that you're worth a damn.
Sometimes that means dying.
Sometimes it means killing a whole lot of people."
— Frank Miller (Sin City, Vol. 3: The Big Fat Kill)

"She doesn't quite chop his head off.
She makes a Pez dispenser out of him."
— Frank Miller (Sin City, Vol. 3: The Big Fat Kill)

"Spartans... tonight we dine in Hell!"
— Frank Miller (300)

"Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

"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)

"Happiness is the twinkle in your grandmother's eye as you reverse the tractor off her legs."
— Hugh Laurie

"I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. "
— Hugh Laurie

"When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become....... as strong as they can be."
— Masashi Kishimoto (Naruto, Vol. 21)

"Shut up or I'll kill you."
— Masashi Kishimoto (Naruto, Vol. 4)

"She's strong! And scary...I bet she's single...I'd put money on it...
-Kabuto"
— Masashi Kishimoto (Naruto, Vol. 18)