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“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”
― Meg Cabot

“Well," I said. "I could strip off my clothes and reveal to you that under my jeans and sweatshirt I'm actually wearing a tank top and short-shorts, much like Lara Croft from Tomb Raider... only mine are flame-retardant and covered in glow-in-the-dark dinosaur stickers."
No one stirred. Not even Christopher, who actually has a thing for Lara Croft.
"I know what you're thinking," I went on. "Glow-in-the-dark dinosaur stickers are SO last year. But I think they add a certain je ne sais quoi to the whole ensemble. It's true, short-shorts are uncomfortable under jeans and hard to get off in the ladies' room, but they make the twin thigh-holsters in which I hold my high-caliber pistols so easy to get to...."
The oven timer dinged.
"Thank you, Em," Mr. Greer said, yawning. "That was very persuasive.”
― Meg Cabot, Airhead

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“D'Arvit!”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl 1 3