Mo > Mo's Quotes

“Occasionally he would very nearly swear.”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“They were put into my pockets by Weena, when I traveled into Time.”
― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

“Then he hung up, the scoundrel!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“It's only paranoia," whispered the Wodensfang, "If things aren't out to get you...”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Seize a Dragon's Jewel

“With his finger curled under his lip, his elbow on the arm of the couch, he merely studied me as I recounted the memories, and now he was eager for the tale to go on.”
― Anne Rice, Merrick

“No I am not all right!” Chrestomanci said, after five minutes of this. “I have worldwide blisters. I need a shave. I’m tired out and I haven’t had anything to eat since breakfast yesterday. Would you feel alright in my position?”
― Diana Wynne Jones, The Pinhoe Egg

“I don't know," I said. "Whether or not he can write his own name seems to have very little impact on his ability to be an ass.”
― Danielle Bennett, Havemercy

“EVERY ENDING IS A NEW BEGINNING.
YOUR LUCKY NUMBER IS NONE.
YOUR LUCKY COLOUR IS DEAD.
Motto:
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON.”
― Neil Gaiman

“I sit beside the fire and think
Of all that I have seen
Of meadow flowers and butterflies
In summers that have been

Of yellow leaves and gossamer
In autumns that there were
With morning mist and silver sun
And wind upon my hair

I sit beside the fire and think
Of how the world will be
When winter comes without a spring
That I shall ever see

For still there are so many things
That I have never seen
In every wood in every spring
There is a different green

I sit beside the fire and think
Of people long ago
And people that will see a world
That I shall never know

But all the while I sit and think
Of times there were before
I listen for returning feet
And voices at the door”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“That doesn't sound very reliable to me," said the druid nastily. "How can a book know what day it is? Paper can't count.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic

“There are few sights sadder than a ruined book, but Klaus had no time to be sad.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

“I wouldn't write a book to tell you that a vampire was happy.”
― Anne Rice, Vittorio, The Vampire

“I am no longer a shuddering speck of existence, alone in the darkness; - I belong to them and they to me; we all share the same fear and the same life, we are nearer than lovers, in a simpler, a harder way; I could bury my face in them, in these voices, these words that have saved me and will stand by me.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“Yes," said Hardacre, "but it's not real. We're not real. And when the story is all told, when He writes 'The End' at the bottom of the last page, then all this will wrap up. No more Hell, no more Heaven, no more angels, devils, saints or sinners. The story's done. It will be as if we never were”
― Matthew Hughes, The Damned Busters

“Though Isengard be strong and hard, as cold as stone and bare as bone,
We go, we go, we go to war, to hew the stone and break the door!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Can't you see it's the same? The same guns, the same children dying in the streets? Only the dream has changed, the blood is the same colour. Is that what you want?”
― John le Carré, Call for the Dead

“She dreamed of a world where books did not rot or give way to green blot, where words and ideas were not things you were despised for treasuring.”
― Frances Hardinge, Fly by Night