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"'I must say that I find that a perfectly detestable nightdress,' said Rom cheerfully. 'Your aunt Louisa can certainly pick them!'" Rom, page 357
"Poor Harriet, I'm always abducting you in unsuitable clothes." Rom, page 359
"Children, they're the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world---any world. The very best of all." Fenoglio, page 134
"You know, I think that a book always keeps something of its owners between the pages." Taddeo, page 550
From the back cover of Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson:"High school senior Tyler Miller used to be the kind of guy who faded into the background---average student, average looks, average dysfunctional family. But since he got busted for doing graffiti on the school, and spent the summer working outdoors to pay for it, he stands out like you wouldn't believe. His new physique attracts the attention of queen bee Bethany Milbury, who just so happens to be his father's boss's daughter, the sister of his biggest enemy---and Tyler's secret crush. Soon his life is a roller coaster, with fantastic highs, devastating lows, and no seat belt to protect him. He has no choice. He'll have to ride it out..."
From the back cover of Things Not Seen, by Andrew Clements"My heart is jumping around in my chest, and I'm tensed, ready to cut and run. Alicia smiles at the man and says, 'This guy here next to me, can you tell me if he's taller than I am? We've been having an argument because I think I'm taller than he is. What do you think?' Her hand tightens around mine.
The man is torn. He doesn't see a thing. I can tell this guy is worried that he's going to hurt this blind girl's feelings. But he clears his throat, and he says, 'The guy there next to you? Miss...actually, there's no one there.'
She shakes my hand like a puppy shaking a rag. "He's right here---I'm holding his hand! Who's taller, can't you tell?' Her voice is shrill, almost frantic.
The guy doesn't like being called a liar. 'Miss, whoever you thought was there next to you, he's not there now.'
And now there's a new look on her face. New for Alicia. But I've seen it before. On Mom's and Dad's faces that first morning. It's the look of someone who's trying to process impossible information.
Because when something impossible happens, everything else comes unglued. She's having trouble breathing. Then the first words. 'So...you're, you're really---'
'Yeah,' I say, 'Invisible.'
From the back cover of Postcards From No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers"'I'd really like to know about your grandfather,' Hillie said. 'We've always wondered who he was, what he was like, this man whose grave we laid flowers on. But the years my mother did it, and I did it, no one came up and said it was their relative's grave. So we could never ask. until today. What about a coffee? We could go to a cafe and talk.'
Jacob would have liked nothing better. Everything about this girl appealed to him. Her looks. The things she said. The funny, slightly aggressive way she said them sometimes. As always when someone specially attracted him, he wanted to touch her.
He pushed the thought from his mind lest he give himself away, and to allow himself time to answer, he looked for Tessel, who was lagging behind somewhere with Wifred.
'I'd like to,' he said. 'But I'm with Mrs. Van Riet, with Tessel, and---'
'I don't mind,' Hillie said in her matter-of-fact style, 'she seems very nice, but it wouldn't be the same, would it?'
He glanced at her, and she smiled the same complicit smile she had given him when they all shook hands.
'No,' he said, 'it wouldn't.'"
"I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched them end to end---they'd reach forever." Sara, page 34
"The human capacity for burden is like bamboo---far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance." Brian, page 196
"You don't love someone because they're perfect. You Love them in spite of the fact that they're not." Julia, page 384
***I don't wanna give anything too big away, but I love the paragraphs on page 421***
"It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place." Mo Folchart
"If you take a book with you on a journey, an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what if smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you ere reading it...yes, books are like flypaper---memories cling to the printed page better than anything else." Mo Folchart
"You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them." Meggie Folchart
"If Cyd Charisse knows one thing, it's that Shrimp is her true love.
Shrimp, the hottest pint-size surfer-artist in San Francisco. That boy (as her mother called him), who was the primary cause of Cyd's being grounded to Alcatraz, formerly known as her room. The boy who dumped Cyd before she left home to spend the summer in New York City.
Now it's the start of senior year. Cyd has changed, but maybe Shrimp has changed too---and maybe Cyd and Shrimp will need to get to know each other all over again to figure out if it's for real. Can Cyd get back together with Shrimp and keep the peace with her mom? And can she get a life outside of her all-encompassing boy radar?"
If you start to read this book, you will go on a journey with a nine-ear-old boy named Bruno. (Though this isn't a book for nine-year-olds.) And sooner or later you will arrive with Bruno at a fence.
Fences like this exist all over the world. We hope you never have to encounter one."
"Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She's quiet, keeps to herself, and doesn't get out much. Not because she's not pretty. She is. It's just that, well, Sookie has this sort of 'disability.' She can read minds. And that doesn't make her too dateable. And then along comes Bill. He's tall, dark, handsome---and Sookie can't hear a word he's thinking. He's exactly the type of guy she's been waiting for all her life...
But Bill has a disability of his own: He's a vampire with a bad reputation. He hangs with a seriously creepy crowd, all suspected of---big surprise---murder. And when one of Sookie's coworkers is killed, she fears she's next..."
