"For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be."
— John Connolly (The Book of Lost Things)

"In the space of a few minutes the sky turned black and it began to rain."
— Primo Levi (Lilith, et autres nouvelles)

"There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet."
— Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts)

"So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall."
— Roald Dahl

"Each man dreams his own heaven."
— John Connolly (The Book of Lost Things)

"People who love horror films are people with boring lives... when a really scary movie is over, you're reassured to see that you're still alive and the world still exists as it did before. That's the real reason we have horror films - they act as shock absorbers - and if they disappeared altogether, I bet you'd see a big leap in the number of serial killers. After all, anyone stupid enough to get the idea of murdering people from a movie could get the same idea from watching the news."
— Ryu Murakami (In the Miso Soup)

"He had quite liked the dwarfs. He often had no idea what they were talking about, but for a group of homicidal, class-obsessed small people, they were really rather good fun."
— John Connolly (The Book of Lost Things)

"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."
— Roald Dahl

"A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men."
— Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)

"I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it."
— Roald Dahl (Matilda)

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

"Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend."
— Richard Matheson (I Am Legend)

"Everything seemed to flood over him then. It was as though he’d been the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dike, refusing to let the sea of reason in."
— Richard Matheson (I Am Legend)

"Come out, Neville."
— Richard Matheson (I Am Legend)

"They don't realise that they've changed; they think it's the world that changed."
— Ryu Murakami (Coin Locker Babies)

"The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours"
— Alan Bennett (The History Boys: The Film)

""How do I define history? It's just one fucking thing after another"
- Rudge"
— Alan Bennett (The History Boys: A Play)

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

"The magician stood erect, menacing the attackers with demons, metamorphoses, paralyzing ailments, and secret judo holds. Molly picked up a rock."
— Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn)

"Sparrows and cats will live in my shoe,
Sooner than I will live with you.
Fish will come walking out of the sea,
Sooner than you will come back to me."
— Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn)

"Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead."
— Fannie Flagg (Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: A Novel)

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

"Punctuality is the virtue of the bored."
— Evelyn Waugh

"the senile, lecherous expression of a camel."
— Yann Martel (Life of Pi)