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  • #1
    Pseudonymous Bosch
    “This book will not harm you unless someone throws it at you which is a possibilty never to be discounted.”
    Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret

  • #2
    Pseudonymous Bosch
    “Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.”
    Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret

  • #3
    Pseudonymous Bosch
    “Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else.”
    Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret

  • #4
    Pseudonymous Bosch
    “Only bad books have good endings.
    If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.”
    Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret

  • #5
    Pseudonymous Bosch
    “But remember what I said about forgetting what I said?”
    Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret

  • #6
    Pseudonymous Bosch
    “It was like walking into a treasure trove of books, hoarded by pirate librarians.”
    Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret

  • #7
    Pseudonymous Bosch
    “Q: Why do you like chocolate so much?

    A: The answer, clearly, is because I've tasted chocolate.”
    Pseudonymous Bosch

  • #8
    Pseudonymous Bosch
    “You know, people always warn children about taking candy from strange adults. But they never warn us adults about taking candy from strange children.
    All those sweet-looking kids who sell boxes of candy bars on the street to help pay for schooling - how do we know what's in those bars? And don't even get me stated on that nefarious institution designed to lure unsuspecting customers into buying mysterious frosted goodies: the bake sale.
    Adults, be warned: if a child wanted to poison you it would be a piece of cake! Literally a piece of cake.”
    Pseudonymous Bosch, This Book Is Not Good for You

  • #9
    Erin Hunter
    “Once a friend, always a friend. Why should borders stop that?”
    Erin Hunter, Fading Echoes

  • #10
    Erin Hunter
    “Ivypool felt her mouth drop open "Hollyleaf? But...you you're dead!"
    "Obviously not," the newcomer replied with an edge to her voice.”
    Erin Hunter, The Forgotten Warrior

  • #11
    Kathryn Lasky
    “Cycling, cycling forever
    bear, wolf, caribou.
    When had it all started, where will it end?
    We are all part of one, from such simple beginnings and yet all so different.
    Yet one.
    One and again.”
    Kathryn Lasky, Lone Wolf

  • #12
    E.D. Baker
    “Look at me! I'm big! I'm strong! I'm a superior example of froghood and capable of protecting us both!”
    E.D. Baker, The Frog Princess

  • #13
    E.D. Baker
    “Unfortunately being born princess doesn't autimatically make a girl graceful or confident, a fact I've lamented for most of my fourteen years”
    E.D. Baker, The Frog Princess

  • #14
    Liz Kessler
    “The woods were deserted that day.
    The stones stood still and silent, as though they were waiting for something. At the center of them all, a jagged piece of amber glowed in the growing darkness. Lights fizzed softly around it, turning pink, orange, purple, blue.
    No one saw it. No one ever did. Why would they? No one knoew about its magic, not anymore. They had forgotten all about such magic a long, long time ago. About the same time they stopped believing in faries.
    How foolish.”
    Liz Kessler, Philippa Fisher and the Fairy's Promise

  • #15
    Liz Kessler
    “But there would be no confrontation the next day. And for Tommy Williams, there would be no school, either. Because the moment he walked through the gap in the stones to leave the circle, something quiet unexpected happened.
    Tommy, holding tightly on to his rock, took the step that divided the inside of the circle from the outside - and disappeared.

    The woods suddenly felt colder than usual. The darkness hung more heavily.
    The amber was gone - and now nothing would ever be the same.”
    Liz Kessler, Philippa Fisher and the Fairy's Promise

  • #16
    Michelle Paver
    “Evil exists in us all, Torak. Some fight it. Some feed it. That's how it's always been.”
    Michelle Paver

  • #17
    Michelle Paver
    “There's always a choice,' said Torak, and walked backward off the cliff.”
    Michelle Paver

  • #18
    Pseudonymous Bosch
    “Better to cry wolf over and over than never to cry wolf at all.”
    Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret

  • #19
    Michelle Paver
    “Toark woke with a jolt from a sleep he'd never meant to have.”
    Michelle Paver, Wolf Brother

  • #20
    Michelle Paver
    “Sometimes there's no warning. Nothing at all. ”
    Michelle Paver, Oath Breaker

  • #21
    Rick Riordan
    “Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot."
    "He's the sun god," I said.
    "That's not what I meant.”
    Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse

  • #22
    Rick Riordan
    “The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They were about to get offered up as human sacrifices, when they prayed to Zeus to save them. So Zeus sent this magical flying ram with golden wool, which picked them up in Greece and carried them all the way to Colchis in Asia Minor. Well, actually it carried Cadmus. Europa fell off and died along the way, but that's not important."
    "It was probably important to her.”
    Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters

  • #23
    Rick Riordan
    “What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?"
    "I don't know. But I just know that I'll be fighting next to you."
    "Why?"
    "Because you're my friend, Seaweed Brain. Any more stupid questions?”
    Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

  • #24
    Rick Riordan
    “You are okay?" he asked. "Not eaten by monsters?"
    "Not even a little bit." I showed him that I still had both arms and both legs, and Tyson clapped happily.
    "Yay!" he said. "Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!"
    I hoped he didn't mean all at the same time, but I told him absolutely, we'd have a lot of fun this summer.”
    Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

  • #25
    Rick Riordan
    “How did you die?"
    "We er....drowned in a bathtub."
    "All three of you?"
    "It was a big bathtub.”
    Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

  • #26
    Rick Riordan
    “I nodded, looking at Rachel with respect. "You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue plastic hairbrush.”
    Rick Riordan

  • #27
    Rick Riordan
    “Jumping out a window five hundred feet above ground is not usually my idea of fun. Especially when I'm wearing bronze wings and flapping my arms like a duck.”
    Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

  • #28
    Rick Riordan
    “Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.”
    Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

  • #29
    Rick Riordan
    “God alert!" Blackjack yelled. "It's the wine dude!
    Mr. D sighed in exasperation. "The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot!”
    Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse

  • #30
    Rick Riordan
    “She'd also called me brave...unless she was talking to the catfish.”
    Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief



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