Is this Clarissa Fray? The voice on the other end of the phone sounded familiar, though not immediately identifiable.Clary twirled the phone cord nervously around her finger. Yeees?Hi, I'm one of the knife-carrying hooligans you met last night in Pandemonium? Im afraid I made a bad impression and was hoping you'd give me a chance to make it up to-SIMON! Clary held the phone away from her ear as he cracked up laughing. That is so not funny!Sure it is. You just don't see the humor.Jerk. Clary sighed, leaning up against the wall.
~ Cassandra Clare
have i gone mad?im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.
~ Lewis Carroll
Inconceivable!You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
~ William Goldman
Sections in the bookstore- Books You Haven't Read- Books You Needn't Read- Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading- Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written- Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered- Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First- Books Too Expensive Now and You'll Wait 'Til They're Remaindered- Books ditto When They Come Out in Paperback- Books You Can Borrow from Somebody- Books That Everybody's Read So It's As If You Had Read Them, Too- Books You've Been Planning to Read for Ages- Books You've Been Hunting for Years Without Success- Books Dealing with Something You're Working on at the Moment- Books You Want to Own So They'll Be Handy Just in Case- Books You Could Put Aside Maybe to Read This Summer- Books You Need to Go with Other Books on Your Shelves- Books That Fill You with Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified- Books Read Long Ago Which It's Now Time to Re-read- Books You've Always Pretended to Have Read and Now It's Time to Sit Down and Really Read Them
~ Italo Calvino
No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know! the man yelled. Really? said Vimes. What's the orbital velocity of the moon?What?Oh, you'd like something simpler?
~ Terry Pratchett
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Touch her, and I'll freeze your testicles off and put them in a jar. Understand?
~ Julie Kagawa
I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.
It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.
~ Neil Gaiman
Hercules,huh? Percy frowned. That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn--there he is.
~ Rick Riordan
Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.
~ David Sedaris
...disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business....
~ Tom Robbins
Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.
~ Stephen King
There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.
~ E. Nesbit
I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite.
~ Suzanne Collins
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
~ G.k. Chesterton
Is that a bulletproof vest? See, now that's so insulting. That's like saying I'm not smart enough to shoot you in the head. Eddie DeChooch
~ Janet Evanovich
Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
~ John Green
Why it's simply impassible!Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible? Nothing's impossible!
Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
~ Charles Bukowski
I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
~ Ellen Degeneres
You are the shuckiest shuck faced shuck in the world!
~ James Dashner
[My mom's] funny that way, celebrating special occasions with blue food. I think it's her way of saying anything is possible. Percy can pass seventh grade. Waffles can be blue. Little miracles like that.
You should eat a waffle! You can't be sad if you eat a waffle!
~ Lauren Myracle
You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
~ Anne Lamott
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
~ Oscar Wilde
Ask me if I sparkle and I’ll kill you where you stand.” (Bones)
~ Jeaniene Frost
You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
~ John Irving
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
~ Mark Twain
There are two types of people in this world. People who hate clowns...and clowns. (Bobby Pendragon)
~ D.j. Machale
Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there's no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
You nicked-named my daughter after the Lock Ness Monster!
~ Stephenie Meyer
Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.
~ Dorothy Parker
Watching Jace hug Isabelle, she tried to school her features into a happy and loving expression.Are you all right? Simon asked, with some concern. Your eyes are crossing.
Oh Tigger, where are your manners?I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am.
~ A.a. Milne
April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Look, let me just say it: He was hot. A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy . . . well.
Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.
You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.
~ Charlaine Harris
