"When you have to jump, you jump."
— Brandon Mull

""Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.”
-Dale from Fablehaven"
— Brandon Full

""I hate how my past actions keep messing up my future options," Seth muttered.
"Then you've started down the road to wisdom," Grandpa replied."
— Brandon Mull (Fablehaven: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary)

"....there is a difference between hearing and listening. You can't always help what you hear. But you can control what holds your interest, what you choose to dwell on."
— Brandon Mull (Fablehaven: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary)

"“An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page."
"
— Brandon Mull (Fablehaven: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary)

"FABLEHAVEN: None who enter will leave unchanged. Trespassers will be turned to stone."
— Brandon Mull

""Butler could kill you a hundred different ways without use of his armoury. Though I'm sure one would be quite sufficient."
(Artemis Fowl)"
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl)

"Trust me. I'm a genius."
— -Artemis Fowl

"Being in command means making tough decisions. Not being in command means shutting up and doing what you're told."
— Eoin Colfer (through Com. Root (Artemis Fowl, Book 3))

"She forces me to endure this ridiculous therapy, when the so-called counselors are little better than misguided do-gooders with degrees.

-Artemis Fowl"
— Eoin Colfer

"Listen to me, goblin. You're stupid, let's accept that and move on."
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code)

"The problem is that I know the textbook answers to any question you care to ask.

-Artemis Fowl"
— Eoin Colfer

""Artemis Fowl II: Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist and that I am not a gibbering moron." "
— Eion Colfer

"i never tell anyone how smart i am, they would be to scared. "
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code)

"Really, I'm trying to care, Artemis, really. But I thought it was all supposed to be over when the fat lady sings. Well, she's singing, but it doesn't appear to be over"
— Eoin Colfer

"I don't like lollipops.

-Artemis Fowl Jr."
— Eoin Colfer

"No, mademoiselle, I would not like to see the children's menu. I have no doubt that the children's menu itself tastes better than the meals on it. I would like to order ? la carte. Or don't you serve fish to minors?"
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code)

"Jumping out a window five hundred feet aboveground is not usually my idea of fun. Especially when I'm wearing bronze wings and flapping my arms like a duck."
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

"Wisdom is Key!"
— Athen~Rick Riordin

"She'd also called me brave... unless she was talking to the catfish.

-Percy Jackson"
— Rick Riordan

""Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!" "
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

"My name is Percy Jackson.
I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yanvy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York.
Am I a troubled kid?
Yeah. You could say that. "
— Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief)

"It blew my mind that this stuff had survived for two thousand, three thousand years. "
— Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief)

"Grover didn't say anything for awhile. Then, when I thought he was going to give me some deep philosophical comment to make me feel better, he said, "Can I have your apple?""
— Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief)

"All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or maybe they'd realized I got my Essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade. Or worse, they were going to make me read the book. "
— Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief)

"...even the most independent people sometimes needed help. And if I'd learned nothing else from my life thus far, it was that you don't always end up where you think you're going."
— Margaret Peterson Haddix (Just Ella)

"We'll have a 'rest of our lives' now,"
— Margaret Peterson Haddix

"Maybe everyone is just waiting for someone else to save them."
— Margaret Peterson Haddix (Among the Brave)

"One of the greatest myths in the world - & the phrase 'greatest myths' is just a fancy way of saying 'big fat lies' -- is that troublesome things get less & less troublesome if you do them more & more. People say this myth when they are teaching children to ride bicycles, for instance, as though falling off a bicycle & skinning your knee is less troublesome the fourteenth time you do it than it is the first time. The truth is that troublesome things tend to remain troublesome no matter how many times you do them, & that you should avoid doing them unless they are absolutely urgent."
— Lemony Snicket (The Ersatz Elevator)

"But there are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible...."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

"Well-read people are less likely to be criminals."
— Lemony Snicket

"There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't."
— Lemony Snicket

"If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats."
— Lemony Snicket (The Wide Window)

"It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting."
— Lemony Snicket (The Grim Grotto)

"The sad truth is the truth is sad."
— Lemony Snicket (The Hostile Hospital)

"I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong."
— Lemony Snicket (The Bad Beginning)

"But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for being very long, very dull, and very difficult to read. This is one reason many lawyers make heaps of money. The money is an incentive - the word "incentive" here means "an offered reward to persuade you to do something you don't want to do - to read long, dull, and difficult books."
— Lemony Snicket (The Bad Beginning)

"They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so."
— Lemony Snicket (The Bad Beginning)

"It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try to readjust the way you thought of things. The Baudelaire orphans were crying not only for their Uncle Monty, but for their own parents, and this dark and curious feeling of falling that accompanies every great loss."
— Lemony Snicket (The Reptile Room)

"Entertaining a notion, like entertaining a baby cousin or entertaining a pack of hyenas, is a dangerous thing to refuse to do. If you refuse to entertain a baby cousin, the baby cousin may get bored and entertain itself by wandering off and falling down a well. If you refuse to entertain a pack of hyenas, they may become restless and entertain themselves by devouring you. But if you refuse to entertain a notion - which is just a fancy way of saying that you refuse to think about a certain idea - you have to be much braver than someone who is merely facing some blood-thirsty animals, or some parents who are upset to find their little darling at the bottom of a well, because nobody knows what an idea will do when it goes off to entertain itself."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

"A successful villain should have all these things at his or her villainous fingertips, or else give up villainy altogether and try to lead a life of decency, integrity, and kindness, which is much more challenging and noble, if not always quite as exciting."
— Lemony Snicket (The Grim Grotto)

"In most cases, the best strategy for a job interview is to be fairly honest, because the worst thing that can happen is that you won't get the job and will spend the rest of your life foraging for food in the wilderness and seeking shelter underneath a tree or the awning of a bowling alley that has gone out of business."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

"Right, good temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
— Lemony Snicket (The Reptile Room)

"A passport, as I'm sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between two countries, so that the official can learn who you are, where you were born, and how you look when photographed unflatteringly."
— Lemony Snicket

"It is always cruel to laugh at people, of course, although sometimes if they are wearing an ugly hat it is hard to control yourself."
— Lemony Snicket

"A crow may put on human shape or crow shape, but we remain crows,” he replied firmly. “Hawks, too, are the same, whether they are born in human nests or hawk ones. The nestlings must always be protected. Since you have chosen to protect these, I and mine will protect you."
— Tamora Pierce (Trickster's Choice)

"So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep."
— Tamora Pierce (In the Hand of the Goddess)

"If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a good lie and getting caught."
— Tamora Pierce (Trickster's Choice)

""A girl nearby muttered,"If that's a lady, I'm a cat."
Reaching out, Sandry lifted the pitcher of milk from the table. Cradling it in both hands, she walked over to the mutterer.
"I am Sandrilene fa Toren, daughter of Count Mattin fer Toren and his countess, Amiliane fa Landreg. I am the great-niece of his grace, Duke Vedris of this realm of Emelan, and cousin of her Imperial Highness, Empress Berenene of the Namorn Empire. You are Esmelle ei Pragin, daughter of Baron Witten en Pragin and his lady Colledia of House Wheelwright, a merchant house. If I tell you my friend is a lady, then you"- carefully she poured milk into Esmelle's plate-"you had best start lapping, kitty."
She set the pitcher down and returned to her chair. " "
— Tamora Pierce (Sandry's Book)

"And if wishes were pies, I`d weigh more than I do.
Sir Myles of Barony Olau "
— Tamora Pierce (Squire)