"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

"Wise? No, I simply learned to think.
- Eragon"
— Christopher Paolini (Eldest)

"I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?"
— Frank Zappa

"Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck.

-Clary"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

"...Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention."
— Christopher Paolini (Eragon)

"Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe."
— Christopher Paolini (Eragon)

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

"Let no man, in whatever rank or superiority, control your mind and tell you what to do"
— Christopher Paolini

"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."
— Groucho Marx

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
— Oscar Wilde

""I Part Brave, Three Parts Fool!!!""
— Christopher Paolini (Eragon)

"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

"“Prayer may just be the most powerful tool mankind has.”
~Blink
"
— Ted Dekker

""I BELIEVE!!!!!!!"
- Johnny"
— Ted Dekker (Showdown)

"“…It’s not that you don’t have the capacity to accept the truth. You don’t want to accept it, and you hide behind your own logic and intelligence while the truth marches by. Step out and join it, for goodness’’ sake! Shout it out in full step! I believe!”"
— Ted Dekker (Saint)

"Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone."
— Dorothy Parker

"The world’s bumper sticker reads: Life sucks, and then you die. Perhaps Christian bumper stickers should read: Life sucks, but then you find hope and you can’t wait to die."
— Ted Dekker (The Slumber of Christianity: Awakening a Passion for Heaven on Earth)

"I sent the club a wire stating, "PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER"."
— Groucho Marx (Groucho and Me)

"’...You never read Spider-Man? Accepting your true identity means understanding that you are a stranger to this world. A freak, ostracized by the very people you want to help.’"
— Ted Dekker (Saint)

"Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know. "
— Groucho Marx

"“Once born into childlike faith, brimming with belief, typical people begin to lose their faith. Society mocks them. Their friends smirk. They come to change the world, but over time the world changes them. Soon they forget who they were; they forget the faith they once had. Then one day someone tells them the truth, but they don’t want to go back, because they’re comfortable in their new skin. Being a stranger in this world is never easy.”"
— Ted Dekker (Saint)

"It takes much bravery to stand up to our enemies but we need as much bravery to stand up to our friends."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

"’...Death is the one thing that happens to every person. So what if our passing is a little strenuous? What awaits will be no less delightful.’"
— Ted Dekker (Obsessed)

"She was having some difficulty piecing together exactly why she deserved to be in this place, but she wasn't stupid enough to deny that in the end life was cruel and didn't pay attention to what was fair."
— Ted Dekker (BoneMan's Daughters)

"’True love is found by stepping off the cliff... Faith and love are bound together inseparably. If you don’t truly believe, you can’t truly love. If you don’t love, you cannot truly believe. Each is required for the other.’"
— Ted Dekker (A Man Called Blessed)

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
— Mark Twain

"That’s it?” Jason asked. “You spent an hour talking about how lucky you were to be dying?”
“No, not dying, Son. Living.”"
— Ted Dekker (Blessed Child)

"Sin is the Monster we love to deny. It is crouching at the door and it wants you, but you must overcome it."
— Frank E. Peretti

"God is obviouslt God, and Heaven obviously exsists, and every word spoken here on earth turns heads up there."
— Ted Dekker

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
— Walt Disney Company

"“Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can one group of people look at the world and see one thing, and another see something completely different? One sees a town, another sees a desert. One sees beauty, another sees chaos.”
“The skin of this world,” he said quietly.
-Skin"
— Ted Dekker

"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You."
— Dr. Seuss (Happy Birthday to You!)

"’You only owe it to God to run when he asks you to run.’"
— Ted Dekker (A Man Called Blessed)

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
— Oscar Wilde

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"The four rules of writing... 1. Write to discover. 2. There is no greater discovery than love. 3. All love comes from the Creator. 4. Write what you will."
— Ted Dekker (Showdown)

"’Faith is believing in what you can’t see. Like air. And faith is the kind of belief that makes you do things like jump – otherwise it’s not faith at all... Most people who think they believe don’t really believe at all – not the way Christ and his brother talked about. They only think they believe, but they never really step off the cliff.’"
— Ted Dekker (A Man Called Blessed)

""Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names."
"Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

"Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural."
— Ted Dekker (Saint)

"The light had simply and utterly destroyed the darkness."
— Ted Dekker (Renegade: The Lost Books, Book 3)

"all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others"
— George Orwell

""What is pure Bill? Or excellent or admirable? The death of a million people in a flood? God evidently through so. He is incapable of acts that are not admirable, and it is He who brought about the Flood. How about the slaying of children in Jericho? There are a few Bible stories that are not as terrible as they are happy. We just prefer to leave out the terrible part, but that only makes the good anemic. "
— Ted Dekker (When Heaven Weeps: A Novel)

"Factory farming isn't just killing: It is negation, a complete denial of the animal as a living being with his or her own needs and nature. It is not the worst evil we can do, but it is the worst evil we can do to them."
— Matthew Scully (Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy)

"“You’re pretty sharp, Clive. Do you believe in God?”
Clive smiled. “I don’t know, should I?”
“Actually, approaching the matter from a purely logical perspective, yes. All the evidence points to the existence of a creator. The single greatest body of evidence is the dismal failure of man’s desperate attempts to come up with a reasonable alternative, beginning with evolution. I’ve always looked at the universe and seen a creator as plainly as most people who look at the ocean see water.”
-Blink
"
— Ted Dekker

"He landed on his back amid a tangled pile of clothes. "Isabelle," Simon protested weakly, "do you really think this is going to make you feel any better?"
"Trust me," Isabelle said, placing a hand on his chest, just over his unbeating heart. "I feel better already."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)

"’This world we now live in may indeed be a beautiful gift from God, but do not forget that we wait with breathless anticipation for our union with him beyond this life.’"
— Ted Dekker (The Martyr's Song: Unabridged Audio)

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

"Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now."
— Christopher Paolini (Eldest)

"Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues"
— Ted Dekker (The Slumber of Christianity: Awakening a Passion for Heaven on Earth)

"“It was there, beyond the skin of this world, that a cure of ugliness could be found.”"
— Ted Dekker (Skin)