Inkheart Quote VII

"Fire is a dangerous creature!" he had shouted at Farid. "Fire is not your friend. It will kill you if you don't respect it."

-Inkheart, Cornelia Funke

Leviathan Quote II

"They see us."
"Brilliant! Oh, and sorry about this." Deryn grabbed Alek's arm, drew her rigging knife, and pressed it against his throat.
"What are you-" he started, but the words choked off as cold metal touched his flesh.
"Don't struggle, you ninny!" she hissed. "Do you want your head cut off? I'm just making sure no one gets hurt."
"I fail to see your logic!" Alek growled at her, but he stopped struggling.

-Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld

The End of the Beginning Quote IV

"Now do you know where you are?"
"Well," said Avon, "I have narrowed it down to two places."
"Where?"
"Here or there."
"Good," said Edward. "You've got to start somewhere."

-The End of the Beginning, Avi

Inkheart Quote VI

Gold made of paper and printer's ink--and the sound of a human voice.

-Inkheart, Cornelia Funke

Taran Wanderer Quote I

"I share your sorrow," Taran said. Then, to console her, added, "But he died with honor. Your son is a hero..."
"My son is slain," the woman answered sharply.

-Taran Wanderer, Lloyd Alexander

My Kate by Elizabeth Barret Browning

Portrait of a Young Lady by Francis Grant

She was not as pretty as women I know,
And yet all your best made of sunshine and snow
Drop to shade, melt to nought in the long-trodden ways,
While she's still remembered on warm and cold days--
My Kate.

Her air had a meaning, her movements a grace;
You turned from the fairest to gaze on her face;
And when you had once seen her forehead and mouth,
You saw as distinctly her soul and her truth--
My Kate.

Such a blue inner light from her eyelids outbroke,
You looked at her silence and fancied she spoke;
When she did, so peculiar yet soft was the tone,
Though the loudest spoke also, you heard her alone--
My Kate.

I doubt if she said to you much that could act
As a thought or suggestion; she did not attract
In the sense of the brilliant or wise; I infer
'Twas her thinking of others made you think of her--
My Kate.

She never found fault with you, never implied
Your wrong by her right; and yet men at her side
Grew nobler, girls purer, as through the whole town
The children were gladder that pulled at her gown--
My Kate

None knelt at her feet confessed lovers in thrall;
They knelt more to God than they used--that was all;
If you praised her as charming, some asked what you meant,
But the charm of her presence was felt when she went--
My Kate.

The weak and the gentle, the ribald and rude,
She took as she found them, and did them all good;
It always was so with her--see what you have!
She has made the grass greener even here with her grave--
My Kate.

My dear one! -- when thou wast alive with the rest,
I held thee the sweetest and loved thee the best:
And now thou art dead, shall I not take thy part
As thy smiles used to do for thyself, my sweet Heart --
My Kate.

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Quote IV

"Why?" they asked him.
"I want more," Wu Kang said.
"But we are so happy here all together," they said.
"It is not enough," Wu Kang said.

-Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Grace Lin

The Blind Side Quote II

Michael Oher:  But honor, that's the real reason for you either do something or you don't. It's who you are and maybe who you want to be. If you die trying for something important, then you have both honor and courage, and that's pretty good. I think that's what the writer was saying, that you should hope for courage and try for honor. And maybe even pray that the people telling you what to do have some, too.

-The Blind Side, 2009

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Quote I

"Well, Sir, if things are real, they're there all the time."
"Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not know quite what to say.

-The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis

The Murder at the Vicarage Quote II

"I've bought two books on Household Management and one on Mother Love, and if that doesn't turn me out a pattern I don't know what will! They are all simply screamingly funny—not intentionally, you know. Especially the one about bringing up children."
"You haven't bought a book on How to Treat a Husband, have you?" I asked, with sudden apprehension as I drew her to me.
"I don't need to," said Griselda. "I'm a very good wife. I love you dearly. What more do you want?"
"Nothing," I said.
"Could you say, just for once, that you love me madly?"
"Griselda," I said—"I adore you! I worship you! I am wildly, hopelessly and quite unclerically crazy about you!"

-The Murder at the Vicarage, Agatha Christie