Quotes from the Books

“If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.” –Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid

“Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.” -Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland
“If you want sense, you’ll have to make it yourself.” -Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“There once was a boy named Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.” -C.S. Lewis, Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something….You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.” -J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“Are you scared?” Paul whispered. “No,” [Sofia] replied, hating how shaky her voice sounded when it came out. “Me too.” –James Dashner, The Hunt for Dark Infinity

“Flying always butters my appetite.” Lady Peg picked up a small dish of butter from the center of the table and passed it to Paladin. “Thank you Lady Peg, but the comment was figurative.” Lady Peg frowned. “I do wish one’s figure did not reflect the love of good food. It’s so annoying to butter your bread and find rolls around your middle.” –Donita K. Paul, Dragons of the Valley

“It was like standing underneath a waterfall and trying to drink it.” -Jonathan Rogers, The Charlatan’s Boy

“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?” “Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard’.” -Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“A little pain never hurt anybody, did it?” –Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner’s Dilemma

“People see what they want to see, and hear what they want to hear. Unfortunately, smell is a different matter altogether. And most of them have no tast at all.” -Kaza Kingsley, The Three Furies

“But if you were Charlotte, and you had been feeling that life was some cosmic joke that had no punchline, and in the space of a moment you had gone from beeing Charlotte-without-a-kitten to Charlotte-with-a-kitten, you too would have found it nothing short of remarkable.” –Anne Ursu, The Shadow Thieves

“…long shafts of feeble brightness swimming with great shoals of dust.” –Angie Sage, Physik (a description of light in a warehouse.)

“I mean, some of the rooms are full of…” she paused again. “Full of what?” Harleigh said indignantly. She nodded, then went on uncertainly. “Of stories… when you close your eyes and breathe deep you can almost hear them whispering their stories.” –Zilpha Keatley Snyder, The Treasures of Weatherby

“To be master of the words, that was the thing. That was the worthwhile thing: To use words as tools, weapons, trumpets, or comforters, to make people understand, be persuaded. It would be fine, he thought, to conquer the armies of the worldand route the armies of darkness by writing and printing words.” –James Daughtery, Poor Richard

“[God] will also try to render real in a Christian’s mind which they all profess but find it difficult to bring home to their feelings- the doctrine that they did not create themselves, that their talents were given them, and that they may as well be proud of the colour of their hair.” -C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“A tree house, a free house, a secret you and me house, a high up in the leafy branches cozy as can be house. // A street house, a neat house, be sure and wipe your feet house, Is not my kind of house at all- let’s go live in a tree house.” –Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends

“All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.” –George Orwell, Animal Farm

“He had expected neither to walk on pavements of gold, nor to lie on beds of roses: if he had any such exalted expectation, he would not have prospered. He had expected labor, and he found it, and he did it, and made the best of it. In this, his prosperity consisted.” –Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“And it is true, Peeta has always had enough to eat. But there’s something kind of depressing about living your life on stale bread, the hard, dry loaves that no one else wanted.” –Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“The day came like fire and smoke. Low in the East, there were black bars of cloud like the fumes of a great burning. The rising sun lit them from beneath with flames of murky red…” -J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring