"Breakfast was only worth having when somebody else made it for you."
— Caroline B. Cooney (Out of Time)

""I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.""
— Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera)

""No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.""
— Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera)

""Let me stay here," he said. "There was soap.""
— Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera)

"Choosers will be beggers if the beggings not their chosing. "
— Garth Nix (Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr)

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

"By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

"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)

"Hey, we've all got problems, chum. I'm overly talkative. You look like a field of buttercups in a suit."
— Jonathan Stroud (The Golem's Eye)

"One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror."
— Jonathan Stroud (The Amulet of Samarkand)

"Rules and school are tools for fools! I Don't give two mules for rules (Mysterious Benedict Society, p. 74)"
— Trenton Lee Stewart

""Oh, here's a clever one. Do you remember this question from the first test?It reads, 'What wrong with this statement?' And do you know what Constance wrote in reply? She wrote, 'What's wrong with you?'""
— Trenton Lee Stewart (The Mysterious Benedict Society)

""Why, then, do you think the white player might have done it?"

Reynie considered. He imagined himself moving out his knight only to bring it right back to where it started. Why would he ever do such a thing? At last he said,"Perhaps because he doubted himself.""
— Trenton Lee Stewart (The Mysterious Benedict Society)

"Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life. "
— Christopher Paolini (Eragon)

"Life is both pain and pleasure. If this is the price you must pay for the hours you enjoy, is it too much?
"
— Christopher Paolini (Eldest)

"Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now."
— Christopher Paolini (Eldest)

""....avoid roasted cabbage, do not eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!"
-Angela"
— Christopher Paolini (Eldest)

"People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't "
— Christopher Paolini (Eragon)

"There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic."
— Diane Setterfield (The Thirteenth Tale)

"My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie."
— Diane Setterfield (The Thirteenth Tale)

"Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the precious book with ideas and themes - characters even -- caught in the fiber of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you."
— Diane Setterfield (The Thirteenth Tale)

"Burdens are for shoulders that are strong enough to carry them."
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

"He drew a short breath and said lightly but softly:"My dear, I don't give a damn.""
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

"After all, tomorrow is another day."
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

"It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?"
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

""Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!"

"An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.""
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

"Poor Kate,"said Constance,"she's lost her marbles."
— Trenton Lee Stewart (The Mysterious Benedict Society)

"The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves."
— Roald Dahl (The BFG)

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

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

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

"Do not tarry, do not stop, no matter what happens."
— Garth Nix (Sabriel)

"Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?"
— Garth Nix (Sabriel)

"I had a chance at him now. Things were a bit more even. He knew my name, I knew his. He had six years' experience, I had five thousand and ten. That was the kind of odds that you could do something with."
— Jonathan Stroud (The Amulet of Samarkand)

"Minor magicians take pains to fit this traditional wizardly bill. By contrast, the really powerful magicians take pleasure in looking like accountants."
— Jonathan Stroud (The Amulet of Samarkand)

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
— Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities)

"That did it. I'd gone through a lot in the past few days. Everyone I met seemed to want a piece of me: djinn, magicians, humans...it made no difference.I'd been summoned, manhandled, shot at, captured, constricted, bossed about and generally taken for granted. And now, to cap it all, this bloke is joining in too, when all I'd been doing was quietly trying to kill him."
— Jonathan Stroud (The Amulet of Samarkand)

"Watch where you leave your victims! I stubbed my toe on that."
— Jonathan Stroud (The Amulet of Samarkand)

"Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)

"Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkdeath)

"I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing like it for teaching us to wonder why trees are green and not red, and why we have five fingers rather than six."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkdeath)

"He still had the most beautiful eyes of any boy she'd ever seen. But now her heart beat so much faster for someone else."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkdeath)

"Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?"
— Cornelia Funke (Inkdeath)