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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #2
    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #3
    Cassandra Clare
    “One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #4
    Cassandra Clare
    “You know," Gabriel said, "there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will."

    "There was a time I thought I was a ferret," Will said, "but that turned out to be the opium haze. Did you know it had that effect? Because I didn't.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #5
    Cassandra Clare
    “Well, she's not responding to my advances," he observed more brightly than he felt, "so she must be dead."
    "Or she's a woman of good taste and sense.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #6
    Cassandra Clare
    “So you're a Shadowhunter,' Nate said. 'De Quincey told me that you lot were monsters.'
    'Was that before or after he tried to eat you?' Will inquired.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #7
    Cassandra Clare
    “Do reasons matter when there's nothing that can be done to change things.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #8
    Cassandra Clare
    “You've always been what you are. That's not new. What you'll get used to is knowing it.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #9
    Cassandra Clare
    “You point your feet out too much when you walk,” Will went on. He was busy polishing an apple on his shirtfront, and appeared not to notice Tessa glaring at him. “Camille walks delicately. Like a faun in the woods. Not like a duck.”
    “I do not walk like a duck.”
    “I like ducks,” Jem observed diplomatically. “Especially the ones in Hyde Park.” He glanced sideways at Will; both boys were sitting on the edge of the high table, their legs dangling over the side. “Remember when you tried to convince me to feed poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if you could breed a race of cannibal ducks?”
    “They ate it too,” Will reminisced. “Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #10
    Cassandra Clare
    “The demon bared its greenish fangs. "This is my true form. An ugly surprise for you, I suppose."
    "I daresay it's an improvement," said Will. "You weren't much to look at before, and at least the horns are dramatic.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #11
    Cassandra Clare
    “Goodness, my nose is enormous,' she exclaimed. 'Why didn't anyone tell me?”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #12
    Cassandra Clare
    “They're still looking at him.... At Will..."
    "Of course they are.... Look at him. The face of a bad angel and eyes like the night sky in Hell.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #13
    Cassandra Clare
    “I suspect he's sweet on Sophie and doesn't like to see her work too hard.'
    Tessa was glad to hear it. She'd felt awful about her reaction to Sophie's scar, and the thought that Sophie had a male admirer - and a handsome one like that- eased her conscience slightly. 'Perhaps he's in love with Agatha', she said.
    'I hope not. I intend to marry Agatha myself. She may be a thousand years old, but she makes an incomparable jam tart. Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #14
    Cassandra Clare
    “Sometimes the only choice is between acceptance and madness.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #15
    Cassandra Clare
    “Goodness, real goodness, has it's own sort of cruelty to it.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #16
    Cassandra Clare
    “Jem: I know what you're thinking.
    Tessa:I don't think you do.
    You're think, If they call this damp nastiness summer, what must winter be like? You'd be surprised. Winter's actually much the same. It's spring that's really lovely.
    Tessa:Is it?
    Jem:No. It's actually quite foggy and wet as well.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #17
    Becca Fitzpatrick
    “Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do.”
    Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush

  • #18
    Becca Fitzpatrick
    “You smell good, too,” said Patch

    It’s called a shower.” I was staring straight ahead. When he didn’t answer, I turned sideways. “Soap. Shampoo. Hot water.”

    Naked. I know the drill.”
    Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush

  • #20
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
    Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

  • #21
    Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
    “Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    Roald Dahl

  • #22
    Agatha Christie
    “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
    Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

  • #23
    Oscar Wilde
    “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #24
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #25
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #26
    Oscar Wilde
    “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #28
    Oscar Wilde
    “To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

  • #29
    Oscar Wilde
    “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
    Oscar Wilde (attributed to)

  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #31
    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray



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