"I am not ruined. I am ruination." Genya Safin, from the Shadow and Bone series (can't remember which book)

"Richard paused for a moment. If ever, he decided, they made disorganization an Olympic sport, he could be disorganized for Britain."

-- Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman

this is me except replace 'disorganization' with 'social anxiety'

"They were all slender, frail creatures with wondering eyes and soft fluttery voices.

"But they were made out of thin invisible steel." -- Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

"When I meet people, I always imagine what world hides inside them. Most people are the same: rows and rows of busy cubicles with pictures of their kids tacked to the walls and piles of paperwork waiting to go somewhere. I prefer the different ones. Those are the people I love to photograph, the reason I try so hard to shrink entire worlds down into a single shot." -- Ashley Schumacher, Amelia Unabridged 

"I wonder what worlds he sees behind my eyes." -- Ashley Schumacher Amelia Unabridged 

“The prince enjoyed unusually good health even among princes; both by gymnastic exercises and by taking good care of his body he had brought himself to such a state of physical fitness that in spite of the excesses he indulged in when enjoying himself, he looked as fresh as a big shiny green Dutch cucumber.” — Tolstoy, Anna Karenina.

"So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

"If bringing down the wall would require you to fly, you must believe that you can fly. Otherwise, when the decisive moment comes, you will surely discover that you have no wings." -- Patrick Carman, The Dark Hills Divide 

"Look, your window is right across from mine! We could throw things at each other!"

-Keefe, Keeper of the Lost Cities

XD 

"Friend or enemy?" asked Nancy breathlessly.

"Well, not an enemy," said Captain Flint. "Distressed British seaman, more like."

"Yes," said Captain John, "but I didn't come only to warn you. I was going to tell you what the charcoal-burners had asked us to tell Nancy and Peggy. Then I was going to tell you you were all wrong about that paper you put in my tent. Then I was going to tell you I'd never been near the houseboat. And then I was going to declare war."

"Well, I call that really friendly," said Captain Flint. "Do you hear that, Nancy?" he said, as they came back to the others who had come up to the camp. "Do you hear that? He was coming to declare war on me."

"Of course he was," Nancy said. "We all were."

-- Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons 

"Funny, she thought, that even monsters had fragile hearts."

--V.E. Schwab, Our Dark Duet 

"You wouldn't."

"No, I wouldn't. And I'm the villain.  What do you suppose that says about you?"

--ND Stevenson, Nimona 

Seven little foxes in the twisted Antler Wood, listening to stories much later than they should.-

Scary Stories for Young Foxes by Christian McKay Heidicker

And something stirred inside Sophie as she watched Tarina seal the pod tight–a kind of absolute determination that had her promising Silveny and Greyfell that they would see that tiny baby again.

Keeper of the Lost Cities: Flashback 

"O day and night, but this is wondrous strange." -- Shakespeare, Hamlet

"Outside the truck, the cold desert sky pushed up and out and away, a story without ending." -- Maggie Stiefvater, All the Crooked Saints

i just really love the way he describes these suits. "sartorially dyslexic"

"They wore black suits, which were slightly greasy, slightly frayed, and even Richard, who counted himself among the sartorially dyslexic, felt there was something odd about the cut of the coats. They were the kind of suits that might have been made by a tailor two hundred years ago who had had a modern suit described to him but had never actually seen one. The lines were wrong, and so were the grace notes." -- Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere