"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells."
— Dr. Seuss

"A person's a person, no matter how small."
— Dr. Seuss

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
— Dr. Seuss

"Being crazy isn't enough."
— Dr. Seuss

"Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!"
— Dr. Seuss

"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope."
— Dr. Seuss

"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

"Some are born great, others acheive greatness."
— J.K. Rowling

"I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry."
— J.K. Rowling

"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)

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

"Step follows step,
Hope follows Courage,
Set your face towards danger,
Set your heart on victory."
— Gail Carson Levine (The Two Princesses of Bamarre)

"Things change, people change, but that doesn't mean you should forget the past."
— Carson Levine Gail

"Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!"
— Roald Dahl

"It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you."
— Roald Dahl (The Witches)

"Two rights don't equal a left."
— Roald Dahl (The BFG)

"Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people."
— Roald Dahl

""Everything in this room is eatable, even I'm eatable! But that is called cannibalism, my dear children, which is frowned upon in most societies.""
— Roald Dahl

""A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."
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— Roald Dahl

"A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it"
— Roald Dahl

"A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is evil. He is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other wolf is good. he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you."

The son thought about it for a minute and then asked, "Which wolf will win?"

The old man replied simply, "The one you feed."
— Wendy Mass (Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life)

"Maybe some things aren't meant to be known. maybe there just meant to be accepted."
— Wendy Mass (Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life)

"Life is short, have dessert first."
— Wendy Mass

"A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed."
— Wendy Mass (Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life)

"You take the flotsam," I tell her, "I'll take the jetsam."
"You always get the jetsam,"she says pretending to pout. "Do you ever think if poeple heard our conversations they'd lock us up?"
"All the time.""
— Wendy Mass

"Quite often somebody will say, 'What year do your books take place?' and the only answer I can give is, in childhood."
— Beverly Cleary

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."
— Lewis Carroll

"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?
— The Mad Hatter"
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass)

"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle."
— Lewis Carroll

"I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then. "
— Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop"
— Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

"There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't."
— Gail Carson Levine (Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly)

"When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings."
— Gail Carson Levine (Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly)

"When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you"
— Gail Carson Levine (Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly)

"'I’m never wearing them,' Ron was saying stubbornly. 'Never.'
'Fine,' snapped Mrs. Weasley. 'Go naked. And, Harry, make sure you get a picture of him. Goodness knows I could do with a laugh.'"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

"Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

"Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn, sting, and bite all at once?"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

"What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it,when it did."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)