"Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck.

-Clary"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

"A kiss about apple pie a la mode with the vanilla creaminess melting in the pie heat. A kiss about chocolate, when you haven't eaten chocolate in a year. A kiss about palm trees speeding by, trailing pink clouds when you drive down the Strip sizzling with champagne. A kiss about spotlights fanning the sky and the swollen sea spilling like tears all over your legs."
— Francesca Lia Block

"The baby bat
Screamed out in fright,
'Turn on the dark,
I'm afraid of the light.'
"
— Shel Silverstein (Batty)

"Love is a dangerous angel."
— Francesca Lia Block

"Weetzie could see him--it was a man, a little man in a turban, with a jewel in his nose, harem pants, and curly-toed slippers.
"Lanky Lizards!" Weetzie exclaimed.
"Greetings," said the man in an odd voice, a rich, dark purr.
"Oh, shit!" Weetzie said.
"I beg your pardon? Is that your wish?"
— Francesca Lia Block (Weetzie Bat)