"I'm allergic to rocks hitting me in the face."
— Mike Rowe

"It's not an old book, or a treasure map. Nope. Staring up at me was a pile of rocks."
— Wendy Mass (Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life)

"Prince Ronald said, Elizabeth, your hair is all dirty. You are wearing an ugly paper bag. You don't have any shoes on and you smell like a dragon's ear. Come back and rescue me when you're dressed like a real princess.

Elizabeth said, Ronald, your hair is all nice. Your clothes are all pretty. You look like a nice guy, but guess what? You are a bum.

They didn't get married after all."
— Robert Munsch (The Paper Bag Princess)

"Man, you weigh a freaking ton," he told me. "What've you been eating, rocks?"
"Why, is your head missing some?" I croaked. His mouth almost quirked in a smile, and that's when I knew how upset he'd been"
— James Patterson Maximum Ride: the Angel Experiment

"Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?"
— Jane Austen

"And there were other rocks that were like animals, creeping, horrible animals, putting out their tongues, and others were like words I could not say, and others like dead people lying on the grass. I went on among them, though they frightened me, and my heart was full of wicked song they put into it; and I wanted to make faces and twist myself about the way they did, and I went on and on a long way till at last I liked the rocks and they didn’t frighten me any more"
— Arthur Machen

"Rocks are not static and inert. They are constantly changing, shifting, and rearranging their form and location. They can be melted, deposited, eroded and squeezed into new forms... They offer clues about the shifting, changing nature of the continents, mountain ranges, oceans and islands... When an animal or plant dies and its remains leave an impression in rock, the resulting fossil is a testament to life's history and its changing, evolving nature... Explore the fossils life has left as clues to its evolution."
— Robert R. Coenraads (Rocks and Fossils: A Visual Guide)

"What is it that brings me here to stand like a rock in this river of sound?"
— Robin Wall Kimmerer (Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses)

"What are men to rocks and mountains?
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— Jane Austen

"If you don't say anything it can't become important, but if you say it everyone's ever after got to walk round it like a pile of rocks in the living room."
— Philip Hensher (The Northern Clemency)