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“From the end of the bar, the bartender threw a sidelong look at him, so Clarence pulled out a broken Bluetooth headset and fixed it to his ear.
"I learned this trick while traveling with Mikey," Clarence told Nick. "Makes my brand of crazy the same as everyone else's.”
― Neal Shusterman, Everfound

“MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW”
― Adam Rex, The True Meaning of Smekday

“The Fay have always preferred a good story over a well-thought plan.”
― Adam Rex, Cold Cereal

“Welcome to Canada, idiot!”
― rick riordan, The Son of Neptune

“Death looked up from his IPad.”
― rick riordan, The Son of Neptune

“It wasn't the body," he said. "I've seen worse things in our fridge.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Whispering Skull

“DUMBLEDORE'S ARMY, STILL RECRUITING.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Getting a second life is one thing. Making it a better life, that’s the trick.”
― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus

“He was neither dead nor here, but in Idaho, a state often confused, by bicoastal folks, with Iowa, but that in fact was the anti-Iowa in many respects, a place that Iowans would only go to in order to make some kind of statement.”
― Neal Stephenson, Reamde

“She definitely heard the words for airplane and airport, which delighted some little-girl part of her soul (“Yay, going on a trip!”) even as her higher brain was ticking off all the bad things that could happen when men like Jones came into proximity with jet aircraft.”
― Neal Stephenson, Reamde

“Humans needed water or they would die, but dirty water killed as surely as thirst. You had to boil it before you drank it. This culture around tea was a way of tiptoeing along the knife edge between those two ways of dying.”
― Neal Stephenson, Reamde

“Waging war on his enemies had been Sokolov’s habit and his profession for a long time, but being chivalrous to everyone else was simply a basic tenet of having your shit together as a human and as a man.”
― Neal Stephenson, Reamde

“Most of the people around the entrance were, of course, bellhops and taxi drivers. Guests went in and out. Some were dressed in business suits, others in casual tourist attire. He did not see any commandos in tracksuits.”
― Neal Stephenson, Reamde

“They locked me in my room and told me I was grounded until Doomsday. I didn't have the heart to tell them that might be tonight.”
― Rick Riordan, The Sword of Summer

“One magician I worked for once called for my aid during an earthquake which was toppling his tower. Unfortunately, the words he used were "Preserve me!" A cork, a great big bottle, a vat of pickling fluid, and - presto! - the job was done.”
― Jonathan Stroud, バーティミアス ソロモンの指輪〈1〉フェニックス編

“Here we go," the Skull sighed. "Cue crisis!”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Empty Grave

“Literal minds don't deal well with legends.”
― Jonathan Auxier, The Night Gardener

“Micah thought it meant a lot that Jennie's family considered homework a legitimate emergency.”
― Cassie Beasley

“Mt. Rainier: the stupendous volcanic shotgun pointed at Seattle’s head.”
― Neal Stephenson, Reamde

“If a zombie attack had actually materialized, then they might have had a clue as to how to respond. But a stupendous machine-gun free-for-all in the apartment above them was not an eventuality that they had ever thought of and so it froze them for a time.”
― Neal Stephenson, Reamde

“He is just your type," Uncle Meng said gently. "Please, do try not to fuck him."
"How come it's okay for James Bond?”
― Neal Stephenson, Reamde

“They got rid of most of their guns, and took advantage of the surprisingly easy Canadian laws about swords.”
― Stephenson, Neal

“It matters not what me makes with the work.; what matters is that he works.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“It's a tough world, Sugimoto.”
― Gary D. Schmidt, The Labors of Hercules Beal