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  • #1
    Robin Jones Gunn
    “If you feel far from God, guess who moved?”
    Robin Jones Gunn, Surprise Endings

  • #2
    Sarah Dessen
    “Say what you will, but you’re never prepared for the surprise attack.”
    Sarah Dessen

  • #3
    Sarah Dessen
    “It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You just do it.”
    Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

  • #4
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “Really, these wizards! You'd think no one had ever had a cold before! Well, what is it?" she asked, hobbling through the bedroom door onto the filthy carpet.
    "I'm dying of boredom," Howl said pathetically. "Or maybe just dying.”
    Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

  • #5
    Sarah Dessen
    “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
    Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

  • #6
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “I've got a hangover."
    "No, you hit your head on the floor."
    "I can't stay. I've got to rescue that fool Sophie.”
    Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

  • #7
    Jodi Picoult
    “An oncology ward is a battlefield, and there are definite hierarchies of command. The patients, they're the ones doing the tour of duty. The doctors breeze in and out like conquering heroes, but they need to read your child's chart to remember where they've left off from the previous visit. It is the nurses who are the seasoned sergeants -- the ones who are there when your baby is shaking with such a high fever she needs to be bathed in ice, the ones who can teach you how to flush a central venous catheter, or suggest which patient floor might still have Popsicles left to be stolen, or tell you which dry cleaners know how to remove the stains of blood and chemotherapies from clothing. The nurses know the name of your daughter's stuffed walrus and show her how to make tissue paper flowers to twine around her IV stand. The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #8
    William Shakespeare
    “But Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou love me?"
    Catherine: "I cannot tell."
    Henry: "Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask them.”
    William Shakespeare, Henry V

  • #9
    Sarah Dessen
    “Don't think or judge, just listen.”
    Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

  • #10
    “Oswald: "All your life"
    Aurore: "What?"
    Oswald: "All your life, isn't that what you wanted to know? How long I loved you?"
    Aurore: "Well, yes, I suppose I did, but that wasn't what I was going to ask just now."
    Oswald: "I tell you I've loved you since the day you were born, and you tell me you want to know something else. There's no one quite like you, is there, Aurore?”
    Cameron Dokey, Beauty Sleep

  • #11
    Justina Chen
    “By the time I slip back to my room, it's almost six. Jasmine is in bed, awake and waiting for me..."Where were you?"
    Where was I? Chased by a fat guard, hit by a laugh attack and nearly thrown out of Stanford University Math Camp, never to see the light of the campus ever again, and certainly not as a future student.”
    Justina Chen Headley, Nothing But the Truth

  • #12
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “Tell me about this Wizard Howl of yours."
    "He's the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he'd only had time, he would have defeated that djinn. And he's sly and selfish and vain as a peacock and cowardly, and you can't pin him down to anything."
    "Indeed? Strange that you should speak so proudly such a list of vices, most loving of ladies."
    "What do you mean, vices? I was just describing Howl. He comes from another world entirely, you know, called Wales, and I refuse to believe he's dead!”
    Diana Wynne Jones, Castle in the Air

  • #13
    Gail Carson Levine
    “She asks why I like her.
    Might as well ask
    Why I breathe.
    Maybe tomorrow I won't
    Breathe or like her
    Anymore.
    Maybe tomorrow the tides
    Will stop.
    Maybe tomorrow will bring
    No more rainbows.
    Maybe tomorrow
    She will stop
    Asking useless questions.”
    Gail Carson Levine, The Wish
    tags: poem

  • #14
    Robin Jones Gunn
    “Did you read the part that says, 'Your hair is like a flock of goats'? How romantic is that? Or that other line, 'Your neck is like the tower of David.' Oh, now, that sounds real attractive! If some guy tried those lines on me, I'm sure I'd fall instantly in love with him.”
    Robin Jones Gunn, As You Wish

  • #15
    William Shakespeare
    “The world must be peopled!”
    William Shakespeare

  • #16
    Robin Jones Gunn
    “Fred: "Is that brick wall your boyfriend?"
    Doug: "Only in my dreams."
    Fred: "Oh, you too? I'm Fred."
    Doug: "Doug. I should mention, in all fairness though that Christy's boyfriend is my best friend. He's the brick wall you should be worried about.”
    Robin Jones Gunn, A Time to Cherish

  • #17
    Robin Jones Gunn
    “Christy: "My grandma made this. I've had it since elementary school."
    Todd: "I never knew that."
    Christy: "I never knew you left your towel on the floor."
    Todd: "Uh-oh. Is this one of those issues they talked about in our premarital counseling? Should I hang up towels so you feel more loved?”
    Robin Jones Gunn, I Promise

  • #18
    “Reed: "What's up?"
    Vanessa: "There must be an accident or something."
    Reed: "I'm the accident."
    Vanessa: "I couldn't agree more."
    Reed: "What I meant was, those people out there are waiting for me.”
    Jenny O'Connell, Plan B

  • #19
    Brad  Barkley
    “Cal: "I'm really sorry, Professor, but how do you explain these ? Swiss Cake Rolls. That doesn't rhyme; it's not cute; it's not childlike. And this is one of our most-respected snack foods, is it not? How is that, Professor? Hmmm?"
    Eliot: "Well, isn't it obvious? We trust the Swiss for their ability to engineer things, to build with precision."
    Cal: "We do?"
    Eliot: "Do I even have to mention Swiss watches? Swiss Army knives? Swiss cheese? If anyone can build a non-threatening, non-lethal snack cake, it's the Swiss. They're neutral, we can trust them not to attack us with trans-fatty acids and sugar. I think you would feel differently if they were German Cake Rolls. North Korean Cake Rolls. I bet you wouldn't eat them."
    Cal: "I bet I would.”
    Brad Barkley, Scrambled Eggs at Midnight

  • #20
    Scott Westerfeld
    “And you've actually watched it yourself?' I asked. 'Willingly?'
    Sure. I had to see it, you know? Besides we should be safe. Only one in twenty viewers actually had a bad reaction. And it was mostly kids who were affected. I mean younger than you guys. I think the average age was about ten.'
    That made me feel somewhat better.
    But that was a kid's show,' said Jen. 'Maybe it affects everyone, but not that many adults were watching.'
    That made me feel less better. I wanted my protective bangs back.”
    Scott Westerfeld, So Yesterday

  • #21
    Sarah Dessen
    “That's not a real answer.'
    Says who?'
    Says me. I mean real fear, like of failure, of death, of regret. Like that. Something that keeps you awake nights, questioning your very existence.'
    Clowns.”
    Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

  • #22
    Sarah Dessen
    “The girl in the tight black dress was passing by us now, eyeing Wes and walking entirely too slowly. "Hi," she said, and he nodded at her but didn't reply. Knew it, I thought.
    Honestly," I said.
    What?"
    Come on. You have to admit, it's sort of ridiculous."
    What is?"
    Now that I had to define it, I found myself struggling for the right words. "You know," I said, then figured Kristy had really summed it up best. "The sa-woon."
    The what?”
    Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
    tags: lust

  • #23
    Justina Chen
    “Come on, don't you ever stop and smell the coffee?”
    Justina Chen Headley, North of Beautiful

  • #24
    Justina Chen
    “I just told Max flatly, "I had laser surgery last week to lighten my birthmark," as if it was no big deal.
    Oh yeah?" he said. Unexpectedly, Max swiveled around, yanked his pants down.
    The last thing I thought I had wanted to see tonight was Merc walking out the door. I was wrong. It was this stranger's rear end. "Please don't tell me this is one of those stripping telegrams?”
    Justina Chen Headley, North of Beautiful

  • #25
    Justina Chen
    “Wait!"
    What?" I lowered my cup hastily, wondering if maybe there was a stray hair, or worse, a newly boiled bug inside my cup.
    You got to smell it first. It's the proper way to cup coffee."
    Cup coffee?"
    Taste it."
    What? Are you the coffee police or something?”
    Justina Chen Headley, North of Beautiful

  • #26
    Justina Chen
    “Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring.”
    Justina Chen Headley, North of Beautiful
    tags: lost

  • #27
    Justina Chen
    “To dream is to starve doubt, feed hope.”
    Justina Chen Headley, North of Beautiful

  • #28
    Melody Carlson
    “Instead of thanking God for my two strong legs that are able to run and jump and climb, I whined about my "thunder thighs" and "thick" ankles. Instead of rejoicing that I have two capable arms that can lift and carry and balance my body, I complained about the flab that hung beneath them. I have been totally and unbelievably ungrateful for everything. Like a completely spoiled brat, I took my healthy body for granted. I criticized it and despised it. With crystal clarity, I know that I do not deserve the good health that God has mysteriously blessed me with. Not only have I been unappreciative of my body and its amazing working parts, I tortured it by overexercising, and I put my entire health at serious risk by starving myself. What on earth was wrong with me? As I watch these kids with their less-than-perfect bodies, I feel so thoroughly ashamed of myself. I mean, how could I have been so stupid and shallow and self-centered?”
    Melody Carlson, Faded Denim: Color Me Trapped

  • #29
    Robin Jones Gunn
    “In Africa we having a saying, 'If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.' ...Before I go back home, I want you to consider us, Katie. Ponder what it would be like if we went together. Not alone and fast but together and far.”
    Robin Jones Gunn, Coming Attractions

  • #30
    Eva Ibbotson
    “This is worse than Hollywood, he thought. A girl comes in with a pork chop and I write a song for her.”
    Eva Ibbotson



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