"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

""Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.""
— Lee Harper (To Kill a Mockingbird - Prestwick Power Presentations: Lead-Ins to Literature)

"Before you Bella my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars - points of light and reason. .... And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliance, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn't see the stars anymore. And there was no reason for anything."
— Stephenie Meyer

"Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

"Stupid, shiny Volvo owner."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.-Atticus Finch"
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

"Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

"It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

"I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

"...Atticus, he was real nice...."
"Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

"The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

"...Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

"The most effective way to destroy a people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."
— George Orwell

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
— George Orwell (Animal Farm)

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
— George Orwell

"Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness."
— George Orwell

"The best books... are those that tell you what you know already."
— George Orwell (1984)

"But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."
— George Orwell (1984)

"He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

"And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...," He murmured.
"What a stupid lamb, " I sighed.
"What a sick, masochistic lion."
— Stephenie Meyer

"If I could dream at all it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"What if I'm not the superhero? What if I'm the bad guy?"
-Edward Cullen"
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella."
— Susanna Kaysen

""Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.""
— Susanna Kaysen (Girl, Interrupted)

"Live, laugh, love.

When you can feel someone else's pain and joy as if it's your own, thats when you know you really love them - Tina Lowell"
— Ann Brashares (Girls in Pants)

"Why does he have to be my boyfriend? Are you inferior if you don't have a boyfriend? Why does everybody have to be in love with somebody?"
— Ann Brashares (Girls in Pants)

"Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what."
— Ann Brashares (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants)

"When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word."
— Ann Brashares (Girls in Pants)