Terry Deary

I'm not a historian, and I wouldn't want to be. I want to change the world. Attack the elite. Overturn the hierarchy. Look at my stories and you'll notice that the villains are always, always, those in power. The heroes are the little people. I hate the establishment. Always have, always will.

The only politician ever to have entered parliament with honourable intentions, was Guy Fawkes.

(The ‘Declaration of Independence’ begins: ‘All men are created equal’. What they really meant was ‘All men are created equal – unless they happen to be Indian, black or female’!)

Death, as well as fortune, is rather fond of the brave.

Hippocrates was so great that today’s doctors still take the Oath of Hippocrates (though it has been modified during the 20th century).

The English went out and conquered a quarter of the Earth just to escape the rain. They always went for the hot places – Australia, Africa, India. But here’s the funny thing about the English … many of them like to take a bit of their Englishness with them wherever they go. All around the world these sad people build English pubs and serve ‘Full English Breakfasts’ in the morning and ‘Fish and Chips’ for lunch or dinner (or both). Some of them don’t seem to trust ‘foreign’ people, which is a bit odd. ALL the people in England were ‘foreign’ at one time.”

Erin Hunter

Silverstream: You idiot!!! What are you doing in my territory???
Graystripe:...Drowning?
Silverstream: Can't you do that in your own territory?
Graystripe: Ah, but who would rescue me there?

You cannot live with a paw in each world.

Warriors should suffer their pain silently.

Four will Become Two, Lion and Tiger will Meet in Battle, and Blood will Rule the Forest.

You know Yellowfang, don't you? she was cranky, stubborn, impatient-and the most loyal cat you will ever meet.

Now Darkstripe,' Graypaw hissed to Firepaw under his breath, 'is neither young, nor pretty.

Before there is peace, blood will spill blood, and the lake will run red.

A medicine cat has no time for doubt. Put your energy into today and stop worrying about the past.

Surprise is the warrior's greatest weapon.

Barbara Park

A little glitter can turn your whole day around.

I don't even like clowns. Clowns are not normal people

Our nannas are losers.

And sometimes when you're very mixed-up inside, you do things you know you shouldn't do.

Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age.

Can't we be friends?'
I hate your guts, Frankovitch'
Can't our guts be friends?

When you’re in between dreams, you get to lean back and relax and stop trying so hard. Trying to be somebody, I mean. It’s not as exciting as being a television star, but it’s not that bad, either. You just have to learn to be satisfied with the way you are for a while. Not Forever. Just until you’re finished resting.

The upside to grief is it takes away your appetite. When people say you look good they really mean it. Nature's thoughtful that way.

William Peter Blatty

God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.

Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God.

We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to whither; but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon November, by the revolution of that solemn circle which never stops---which teaches us in our height of hope, ever to be sober, and in our depth of desolation, never to despair.

The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us; but he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. His attack is psychological, Damien. And powerful.

Yet I think the demon's target is not the possessed; it is us . . . the observers . . . every person in this house. And I think---I think the point is to make us despair; to reject our own humanity, Damien: to see ourselves as ultimately bestial; as ultimately vile and putrescent; without dignity; ugly; unworthy.

You don't blame us for being here, do you? After all, we have no place to go. No home... Incidentally, what an excellent day for an exorcism...

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

True friends are always together in spirit.

Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.

I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.

Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.

Johanna Spyri

I want to go about like the light-footed goats.

I'll always say my prayers... and if God doesn't answer them at once I shall know it's because He's planning something better for me.

God certainly knows of some happiness for us which He is going to bring out of the trouble, only we must have patience and not run away. And then all at once something happens and we see clearly ourselves that God has had some good thought in His mind all along; but because we cannot see things beforehand, and only know how dreadfully miserable we are, we think it is always going to be so.

Flowers are made to bloom in the sun and not to be shut up in an apron.

God is good to all of us. He knows what we need better than we do. And just because he thinks it is better not to give you what you want right now doesn't mean he isn't answering you. You shall have what you ask for but not until the right time comes.

Lew Wallace

Knowledge leaves no room for chances.

A word as to the pleasure there is in the thought of a Soul in each of us. In the first place, it robs death of its terrors by making dying a change for the better, and burial but the planting of a seed from which there will spring a new life.

Heaven may be won, not by the sword, not by human wisdom, but by Faith, Love, and Good Works.

A man can carry his mind with him as he carries his watch; but like the watch, to keep it going he must keep it wound up.

Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away, but love stays with us. Love is God.

The fiend whose task it is to torture us with fears and bitter thoughts seldom does his work by halves.

To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty--to the poor and humble.

H. Rider Haggard

Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.

As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?

Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death from moral petrification, if not from moral corruption.

Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand--evil have I done, and with sorrow have I made acquaintance from age to age, and from age to age evil shall I do, and sorrow shall I know till my redemption comes.

Kathryn Stockett

You is kind. You is smart. You is important.

Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?

I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.

All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.

Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.

Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.

Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.

Ugly live up on the inside. Ugly be a hurtful, mean person.

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.

That's what I love about Aibileen, she can take the most complicated things in life and wrap them up so small and simple, they'll fit right in your pocket.

I'm sorry, but were you dropped on your head as an infant?

Astrid Lindgren

A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.

Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.

I have never tried that before, so I think I should definitely be able to do that.

But still, if it's true, how can it be a lie?

Don't you worry about me. I'll always come out on top.

I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.

You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you have sailed on the ocean all your whole life, then you don't know just how to behave in school with all the apples and ibexes.