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“I hope your bacon burns.”
― Diana Wynne Jones , Howl’s Moving Castle

“No matter where you go, there you are.”
― Buckaroo Banzai

“Everything's science fiction until someone makes it science fact.”
― Marie Lu, Warcross

“In the beginning, the earth was without form, and void and the darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And god said, 'Let there be light.' and there was light. Only, it wasn't good light. Bob created fireworks, sparklers and neon tubes that circled the globe like weird tangled rainbows. He dabbled with bugs that blinked and abstract creatures whose heads lit up and cast long overlapping shadows. There were mile-high candles and mountains of fairy lights. For an hour or so, earth was lit by enormous crystal chandeliers. Bob thought his creations were cool. They were cool, but they didn't work”
― Meg Rosoff, There Is No Dog

“Life's pleasures were so simple, really. It was all a matter of appreciating what you had - and knowing that things could always be worse.”
― Meg Rosoff, There Is No Dog

“Eck tilts his head and gently licks Bob's ear with his long, sticky tongue. It is his special way of expressing sympathy and it is not effective.”
― Meg Rosoff, There Is No Dog

“He created man in his own image, and gave him dominion over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, and the cattle and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Which anyone could see was one big fat recipe for disaster.”
― Meg Rosoff, There Is No Dog

“But I suspect if I asked, she would tell me that the prayer itself has power, regardless of who hears it.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Lost Sun

“Under the sun, and to the edges of the world.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Lost Sun

“He was too young to deserve a weight of the world sign like the one he expelled.”
― Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins

“Freedom has always been dangerous.”
― Susan Campbell Bartoletti, The Boy Who Dared

“Even in the Future the Story Begins with Once Upon a Time.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“There is something about her he'd like to break”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“I don't get why a person's smile is considered attractive. When someone smiles, they're showing their skeleton.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“I think we carry home on our backs.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, My Diary from the Edge of the World

“She had the human look of a domesticated animal.”
― Agustina Bazterrica

“The universe gets more disorderly all the time.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, My Diary from the Edge of the World

“So many stars are popping out above us it seems you could almost dip your fingers up there and come out with a handful of stars.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, My Diary from the Edge of the World

“Books are the way to stretch out people’s souls, and I won’t have children with small souls.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, My Diary from the Edge of the World

“To Gracie, May this diary be big enough to contain your restless heart.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, My Diary from the Edge of the World

“He's got a great but unorganized mind”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, My Diary from the Edge of the World

“You're less of a charmer, and more of a 'fury from the depths of hell' type of person.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, My Diary from the Edge of the World

“Not only is the universe stranger than we think. It's stranger than we can think.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, My Diary from the Edge of the World

“It hurts less when you’re worry-free. In fact, when you don’t worry, there is no pain.”
― Tim Meyer, Wormwood

“If dogs had religion, Satan would be the UPS guy.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones

“The monsters worth fearing are the ones that are dangerous enough to hide in daylight.”
― Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

“Contentedness is a party I leave early every time.”
― Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

“We sit in polite attentiveness as students waltz across the set with great import, spewing absolute nonsense with breathless conviction.”
― Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

“Get up. Go. See the world in all its hideous glory.”
― Judy Sheehan, I Woke Up Dead at the Mall

“Monsters couldn’t harm you if you were a monster, too.”
― Amanda Foody, christine lynn Herman, All of Us Villains