"It's a lot easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time."
— Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

"So much good, so much evil. Just add water."
— Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)

"Neither were you [born yesterday], unless of course I am wrong, in which case welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life. "
— Lemony Snicket (The Penultimate Peril)

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

"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

"The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven"
— Orson Scott Card (Xenocide)

"Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another."
— Lemony Snicket

"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)

"I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies."
— Lemony Snicket (The Penultimate Peril)

"Count Olaf: [in disguise as Stephano] Children are strange and foreign to me. I never really was one. I do know that they are an important part of the ecosystem."
— Lemony Snicket

"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch."
— Orson Welles

"The moral of Snow White is never eat apples."
— Lemony Snicket

""Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.""
— Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game)

"You would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff."
— Lemony Snicket

"This toast feels raw. Is it safe to eat raw toast?"
— Lemony Snicket

"“Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?...As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you, like a pressed flower... both strange and familiar.""
— Cornelia Funk

"It is very frustrating not to be understood in this world. If you say one thing and keep being told that you mean something else, it can make you want to scream. But somewhere in the world there is a place for all of us, whether you are an electric form of decoration, peppermint-scented sweet, a source of timber, or a potato pancake."
— Lemony Snicket (The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story)

"Capital Letters Were Always The Best Way Of Dealing With Things You Didn't Have A Good Answer To."
— Douglas Adams

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

"I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed-or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

"I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs.
- Elinor"
— Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)

"Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane"
— Emily Dickinson

"They say that 'home is where the heart is.' I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings."
— Emily Dickinson

"You're a monster.
Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise?
No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable."
— Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game)

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

"I lost a world the other day. Has anybody found? You'll know it by the rows of stars around it's forehead bound. A rich man might not notice it; yet to my frugal eye of more esteem than ducats. Oh! Find it, sir, for me!"
— Emily Dickinson (Final Harvest: Poems)

"It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand."
— Madeleine L'Engle

"That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along."
— Madeleine L'Engle

"I hate a Roman named Status Quo."
— Ray Bradbury