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  • #1
    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #2
    Virginia Woolf
    “Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #3
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The first draft of anything is shit.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #4
    Isaac Asimov
    “If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #5
    Jane Goodall
    “The greatest danger to our future is apathy.”
    Jane Goodall

  • #6
    Cassandra Clare
    “I'm always so glad I have no idea what you're vacantly chatting about," said Jace. It fills me with a sense of peace and well-being.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

  • #7
    Cassandra Clare
    “What's that you're holding?" he asked, noticing the pamphlet, still rolled up in her left hand.

    "Oh, this?" She held it up. "How to Come Out to Your Parents."

    He widened his eyes. "Something you want to tell me?"

    "It's not for me. It's for you." She handed it to him.

    "I don't have to come out to my mother," said Simon. "She already thinks I'm gay because I'm not interested in sports and I haven't had a serious girlfriend yet. Not that she knows of, anyway."

    "But you have to come out as a vampire," Clary pointed out. "Luke thought you could, you know, use one of the suggested speeches in the pamphlet, except use the word 'undead' instead of--"

    "I get it, I get it." Simon spread the pamplet open. "Here, I'll practice on you." He cleared his throat. "Mom. I have something to tell you. I'm undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions about the undead. I know you may not be comfortable with the idea of me being undead. But I'm here to tell you that the undead are just like you and me." Simon paused. "Well, okay. Possibly more like me than you."

    "SIMON."

    "All right, all right." He went on. "The first thing you need to understand is that I'm the same person I always was. Being undead isn't the most important thing about me. It's just part of who I am. The second thing you should know is that it isn't a choice. I was born this way." Simon squinted at her over the pamphlet. "Sorry, reborn this way.”
    Cassandra Clare

  • #8
    Cassandra Clare
    “She took out a shiny folded pamphlet, the kind they kept stacked in clear plastic stands in hospital waiting rooms. "How to Come Out to Your Parents," she read out loud. "LUKE. Don't be ridiculous. Simon's not gay, he's a vampire.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

  • #9
    Cassandra Clare
    “But the name Magnus Bane made him think of a towering sort of figure, with huge shoulders and formal purple warlock’s robes, calling down fire and lightning. Not Magnus himself, who was more of a cross between a panther and a demented elf.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

  • #10
    Cassandra Clare
    “Fine,” Kyle said. “I’m a werewolf. I’m not part of a pack, but I do have an alliance. Have you heard of the Praetor Lupus?”
    “I’ve heard of lupus,” said Simon. “Isn’t it a kind of disease?”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

  • #11
    Jane Austen
    “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #12
    Stephen Chbosky
    “I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #13
    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #14
    Cassandra Clare
    “You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. When the egg hatches, the baby cuckoo pushes the other baby birds out of the nest. The poor parent birds work themselves to death trying to find enough food to feed the enormous cuckoo child who has murdered their babies and taken their places."
    "Enormous?" said Jace. "Did you just call me fat?"
    "It was an analogy."
    "I am not fat.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

  • #15
    Salman Rushdie
    “Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.”
    Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

  • #16
    Suzanne Collins
    “District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #17
    Suzanne Collins
    “One more time? For the audience?" he says. His voice isn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Already the boy with the bread is slipping away from me.
    I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #18
    Suzanne Collins
    “Yes, and I’m sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #19
    Suzanne Collins
    “You’re not leaving me here alone,” I say. Because if he dies, I’ll never go home, not really. I’ll spend the rest of my life in this arena, trying to think my way out.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #20
    Suzanne Collins
    “But because two can play at this game, I stand on tiptoe and kiss his cheek. Right on his bruise.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #21
    Suzanne Collins
    “Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true, here is the place where I love you.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #22
    Suzanne Collins
    “She has no idea. The effect she can have.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #23
    Suzanne Collins
    “You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.”
    Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

  • #24
    Suzanne Collins
    “At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.”
    Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

  • #25
    Suzanne Collins
    “I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite. ”
    Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

  • #26
    Suzanne Collins
    “Aim higher in case you fall short.”
    Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

  • #27
    Suzanne Collins
    “I'm so sorry," I whisper. I lean forward and kiss him.
    His eyelashes flutter and he looks at me through a haze of opiates. "Hey, Catnip."
    "Hey, Gale," I say.
    "Thought you'd be gone by now," He says.
    My choices are simple. I can die like a quarry in the woods or I can die here beside Gale. "I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to stay right here and cause all kinds of trouble."
    "Me, too," Gale says. He just manages a smile before the drugs pull him back under.”
    Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

  • #28
    Suzanne Collins
    “Not like this. He wanted it to be real.”
    Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

  • #29
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #30
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire



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