"Isn't it nice knowing that Ender can do the impossible?"

- Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card

"Those guns are there to stop invading armadas," Jesper said confidently. "Good luck hitting a skinny little schooner cutting through the waves bound for fortune and glory."

"I'll quote you on that when a cannonball lands in my lap," Nina said.

- Six of Crows, by Leigh Bardugo

"High on her hill Ziroonderel knew this, being forwarned by magic; and looking downward at evening she saw that star-like line of blended twilights of old lost Summer evenings sweeping over the fields towards Erl. Almost she wondered as she saw this glittering thing flowing over the earthly pastures, although her wisdom had told her that it must come. And on the one side she saw the fields we know, full of accustomed things, and on the other, looking down from her height, she saw, behind the myriad-tinted border, the deep green elfin foliage and Elfland's magical flowers, and things that delirium sees not, nor inspiration, on Earth; and the fabulous creatures of Elfland prancing forward; and, stepping across our fields and bringing Elfland with her, the twilight flowing from both her hands, which she stretched out a little from her, was her own lady the Princess Lirazel coming back to her home."

- The King of Elfland's Daughter, by Lord Dunsany. I love the imagery in this passage, although it is a bit, um, wordy.

"Everything is silly, dear. Life is too brief to be anything else." - Valerie

"I just. Want. To be." - Amelia 

"Can you inherit grief like you can inherit eye color?"

"Even if we were to string up enough lights to cover the forest of the lost golden-haired princess, it still wouldn't be as bright as Alex's and Nolan's laughter."

"I feel the dark weaving the old kind of magic that has bound friends together through decades of sleepovers and accidental late-night talks on porches and doorsteps."

"I slowly start to populate the bleak world with things that make life worth living."

"The words sound like tin cans kicked across the gravel, hollow and repetitive."

"Standing in a square of angry whispers and misunderstood feelings that move between us like poisonous vapers."

"We are all victims of unlikely statistics at least once in our lives." - Valerie

"I'm crying, and I don't stop when the ground shakes beneath my legs and erupts, ginormous blue whales tearing from the earth, their huge bodies rising around me like fast-growing trees. Dorsal fins and barnacles and rubbery skin covered in tiny hairs brush against me, scraping my elbows and upsweeping my hair as I dissolve into fractured sobs that drown out all the locusts and lake storms in the world."

"But for now it's enough to stand by the lake that is not the sea and let the clever wind ruffle our hair and be."

All of these quotes are from Amelia Unabridged by Ashley Schumacher, which in my opinion might be the best book ever written.

This is what friendship feels like, I think: a leap of fear and faith, trusting that your words will be

1. If you have ever peeled an onion, then you know that the first thin, papery layer reveals another thin, papery layer, and that layer reveals another, and another, and before you know it you have hundreds of layers all over the kitchen table and thousands of tears in your eyes, sorry that you ever started peeling in the fist place and wishing that you had left the onion alone to wither away on the pantry shelf while you went on with your life, even if that meant never again enjoying the complicated and overwhelming taste of this strange and bitter vegetable. -first sentence of a series of unfortunate events * the end * by Lemony Snicket 

Look no one ever accused me of being a " good dog " - first sentence of the one and only bob by Katherine Applegate 

There once was a boy named Eustace Clarence Scrubb and he almost deserved it-  Narnia the dawn treader by C.S Lewis 

My house has chicken legs- the house with chicken legs by Sophie Anderson 

"Calla gave the man a lacerating look that plumbed the depths of his soul and found it wanting."

"It was impossible, of course, but again, so was everything that had come before it."

- The Raven Boys, by Maggie Stiefvater

"it's MORNING!" Kinkajou sang, pouncing on Moon's tail.

"isn't that WONDERFUL?"

"it is the opposite of wonderful," Carnelian observed.

-Wings of Fire, Moon Rising

i like this part because i completely understand Carnelian, that is a very good description of exactly what I feel like in the mornings. :)