"The problem with growing up around highly dangerous things is that after a while, you just get used to them." -Aru Shah and The End of Time

The friday before winter break, my mom paked me and overnight bag and a few deadly wepons and took me to my new boarding school.

-PJ, The Titans Curse, III 

When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it's never good news.

– Stormbreaker, Alex Rider book one

Coraline discovered the door a little while after they moved into the house.- Coraline, by Neil Gaiman

It was a crisp, sunny October afternoon and Benjamin, Thomas and Melinda Potter were visiting the Bramblewood Zoo.-The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles, by Julie Andrews Edwards

I love these! Here are mine: 

"There was once a boy named Milo who didn't know what to do with himself- not just sometimes, but always."

-The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster

"The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a ferris wheel when it pauses its turning."

-Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie Babbitt (this one is interesting because it is how many people with synesthesia, a sensory condition, picture the year.) 

"So here I am, not a half-hour old as a tie salesman and trying to look like I know what I am doing, which have got to be two of the biggest jokes of all time, then who should walk into Awkworth and Ames Department Store but Skeezie Tookis."

– the misfits, by james howe  

"Matilda Pages pushed open the door of Pages & Co and breathed in deeply, taking in the familiar scent of of just blown out candles, dark chocolate and of course, books."

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.  Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down or to eat: It was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort." The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien