Teeth

...I had buried all my baby teeth as they came out one by one and perhaps someday they would grow as dragons.

- WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE  BY SHIRLEY JACKSON

Real

Dally was real. I liked my books and clouds and sunsets. Dally was so real he scared me.

- THE OUTSIDERS BY S.E. HINTON

Particular

I am very much in love with no one in particular.

- EZRA MILLER

Hello

There is an empty space next to you in the backseat of the station wagon. Make it the shape of everything you need. Now say hello.

- YOU ARE JEFF BY RICHARD SIKEN

Sexy

But damn if there isn't anything sexier
than a slender boy with a handgun
a fast car, a bottle of pills.

- LITTLE BEAST BY RICHARD SIKEN

Dangerous

Without quite being able to put words into it, Mau felt that being mysterious and a little dangerous was not a bad thing right now.

- NATION BY TERRY PRATCHETT

Salt

They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate. All the warm salt water of the bathing pool and the shouting and splashing and laughing were only just sufficient to bring them together again.

- LORD OF THE FLIES BY WILLIAM GOLDING

Angels

Each of them wore the remains of a black cap and ages ago they had stood in two demure rows and their voices had been the song of angels.

- LORD OF THE FLIES BY WILLIAM GOLDING

Worlds

There was the brilliant world of hunting, tactics, fierce exhilaration, skill; and there was the world of longing and baffled commonsense.

- LORD OF THE FLIES BY WILLIAM GOLDING

I recently read Lord of the Flies and it was...perfect. Lord of the Flies week (or month...or life...) starts from today.

Dust

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from the dust whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.

- THE SHADOW OF THE WIND BY CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

Lonely

He drew hypodermics, one after another. His pen pressed harder and harder as he colored in the embalming fluid inside, as he perfected the trajectory of the three drops squirting out.
Lonely, I thought, on Earth as it is in heaven.

- THE LOVELY BONES BY ALICE SEBOLD

Books

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

- MARK TWAIN

Heaven

Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth.

- MARK TWAIN

Toy

Someday you'll wake up
and feel a great pain
And you'll miss every toy you've ever owned

- FIREWOOD BY REGINA SPEKTOR

Cinderella

Cinderella's on her bedroom floor, she's gotta
Crush on the guy at the liquor store
'Cus Mr Charming don't come home anymore
And she forgets why she came here

- FAIRYTALE BY SARA BAREILLES

Tango

"Dahnce?" asked Ronaldo, King of the Gypsies. "Ve didn't dahnce."
"You didn't?" said Mrs. Jewls.
"No," said Ronaldo. "Ve tangoed!"
Everyone cheered.


- WAYSIDE SCHOOL IS FALLING DOWN BY LOUIS SACHAR

Unspoken

The love between us stayed unspoken. We knew it when our eyes met, when our hands touched.

- THE BUTTERFLY LION BY MICHAEL MORPURGO, PG 72

Demeanor

It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.

- THE HUNGER GAMES BY SUZANNE COLLINS, PG 67

Long

So often it is words or pictures that first tell us what we long for.

- INKDEATH BY CORNELIA FUNKE

Angel

He was intolerable and wonderful and talked like an angel and was a real son-of-a-bitch.

- ON THOMAS WOLFE; FROM ONCE AGAIN TO ZELDA BY MARLENE WAGMAN-GELLER, PG 77

Cornflake

Wish I was a Kellogg's Cornflake
Floatin' in my bowl, takin' movies...

- PUNKY'S DILEMMA BY SIMON & GARFUNKEL

Daphnis

Dower me, Daphnis, or bereave me
Kiss me, kill me, love me, leave me
Damn me, dear, but don't deceive me!

- APPEAL BY EDITH NESBIT

Gooseberry

Altogether, gooseberry virtues take some getting used to, as does trepang, tripe a la mode de Caen, or having turned thirteen.

- GOOSEBERRY FOOL BY AMY CLAMPITT

Suit

People are afraid of you, Arty. Girls are terrified of you. You're a fifteen-year-old in a bespoke suit, and nobody died.

- ANGELINE FOWL, ARTEMIS FOWL AND THE ATLANTIS COMPLEX BY EOIN COLFER, PG 216

Icing

Baker baker, can you explain
If truly his heart
Was made of icing
And I wonder
How mine could taste...

- BAKER BAKER BY TORI AMOS

Disaster

And though we were sick of it and about it, we were greedy for it. We felt privileged there in our protected world, and we felt guilty, and this was our punishment.

- BLOOMABILITY BY SHARON CREECH: CHAPTER DISASTER, PG 148

Butlers

You won't get Seppings away from a dance till you throw him out. I know him. The jazz'll get to his head, and he'll stand clapping and demanding encores till his hands blister. Damn all dancing butlers!

- AUNT DAHLIA, RIGHT HO, JEEVES BY PG WODEHOUSE, PG 216

Rockstar

You're just jealous because I sound like a rockstar.

- BEAST BOY, TEEN TITANS:SEASON 3: EPISODE 7: REVOLUTION

Birds

"Not," I said to her softly, "to unicorns. Nothing's inaccessible to unicorns. Not even - not even white birds."

- ANNIE ON MY MIND BY NANCY GARDEN, PG 78

Fall

I feel that I would like
to go there
and fall into those flowers
and sink into the marsh near them

- THE WIDOW'S LAMENT IN SPRINGTIME BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

Bleachers

Don't stop dancing in the bleachers.

- BREAKTHROUGH, LEMONADE MOUTH

Dizzy

I feel a little dizzy. But also wonderfully elated. I feel that I am on the verge of finding a rhyme for the word "orange".

- ORION FOWL, ARTEMIS FOWL AND THE ATLANTIS COMPLEX BY EOIN COLFER, PG 169

"oxygen deprivation" said Foaly "or maybe that's just him..."

Love

"I don't need love in everything," said Jane.
Batty didn't believe her...

- THE PENDERWICKS AT POINT MOUETTE BY JEANNE BIRDSALL, PG 48

Blanket

...I am much too intelligent to be fooled by a mere blanket.

- JEFFREY TIFTON, THE PENDERWICKS AT POINT MOUETTE BY JEANNE BIRDSALL, PG 173

Density

I'm your density. I mean, destiny.

- GEORGE MCFLY, BACK TO THE THE FUTURE

Apocalypse

Killer asteroids, a frozen Earth, the end to humanity - all this was much easier to handle than a besotted sister.

- THE PENDERWICKS AT POINT MOUETTE BY JEANNE BIRDSALL, PG 153

Tree

...why don't you make like a tree and get outta here?

- BIFF, BACK TO THE FUTURE

Unicorn

You'll see cats and rats and elephants, but as sure as you're born
you're never gonna see no unicorn

- UNICORN BY SHEL SILVERSTEIN

Bells

And some say the soul of the city's the toll of the bells...

- CLOPIN, THE BELLS OF NOTRE DAME, THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME

Take

You shall no longer take things at second or third hand...nor look through the eyes of the dead...nor feed on the specters in books.

- SONG OF MYSELF BY WALT WHITMAN; PG 116 OF PAPER TOWNS BY JOHN GREEN

Beds

A different bed can bring different dreams...

- THE PENDERWICKS AT POINT MOUETTE BY JEANNE BIRDSALL, PG 30

Disease

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted and invariably fatal.

- NEIL GAIMAN

Okay

Whoa, whoa, time out! Let me get this straight. You know her, she knows you, but she wants to eat him, and...everybody's okay with this?

- TIMON, THE LION KING

Mothers

Mothers can be in such denial.

- BRYCE LOSKI, FLIPPED BY WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN, PG 171

Bounce

Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry 'Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover
I must have you!'

- THOMAS PARKE D'INVILLIERS, THE GREAT GATSBY BY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Thousands

You have had quite an influence on me. Which is amazing, because I have dated thousands of women, and - *sees the look on Tiana's face* - well, no, like, two, three - just other woman -

- NAVEEN, THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG

Fool

Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not I.

- LIZA HEMPSTOCK, THE GRAVEYARD BOOK BY NEIL GAIMAN, PG 202

Math

Indie says math is beautiful, but I think we both know he is deluded.

- TWITTER.COM/ROSE CASSON, 7 MAY

Private

"Great writers need their privacy."
"As do chrysanthemums."
"Yes." Jane didn't think it was the same thing at all.

- THE PENDERWICKS ON GARDAM STREET BY JEANNE BIRDSALL, PG 180

Ugly

I was planning to be the ugliest kid in the world, but you're already wearing the costume.

- MATT MCGUIRE, LIZZIE MCGUIRE: NIGHT OF THE DAY OF THE DEAD

If

...and if you do, then you're my friend
and if you don't, then you're my foe
and if you are a deity of any sort, then please don't go...

- NE ME QUITTE PAS, REGINA SPEKTOR

Safe

Many times she'd imagined him wondering aloud what had ever happened to his Bruins puck, and she would be able to say, Why, Tommy, I've kept it safe for you all this time.

- THE PENDERWICKS ON GARDAM STREET BY JEANNE BIRDSALL, PG 57

Types

"Name the different kinds of people," said Miss. Lupescu, "Now."
Bod thought for a moment. 
"The living," he said. "Er. The dead." He stopped. Then, "...Cats?" he offered, uncertainly.

- THE GRAVEYARD BOOK BY NEIL GAIMAN, PG 63

Charm

"He's too charming," she says, "in a dangerous sort of way."

- SOPHIE, THE WANDERER BY SHARON CREECH, PG 5

Besotted

...at least you can get to talk to a normalish person who isn't all besotted with another besotted person.

- CLARICE BEAN TUESDAY, CLARICE BEAN, DON'T LOOK NOW BY LAUREN CHILD

Stalk

We fight the fight! We walk the walk! Talk the talk! Eat the food like a...celery stalk?

-SCOOTALOO, MY LITTLE PONY: FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC: EPISODE 18: THE SHOW STOPPERS

Foot

'Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.' -MARTHA GRAHAM

Reminder

So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?

- KATHLEEN KELLY, YOU'VE GOT MAIL

Insanity

Insanity. I like it.

- TERRY MALONE, HALF MOON INVESTIGATIONS BY EOIN COLFER, PG. 289

Shirt

Mum smoothed my hair. "Did April like the shirt, honey?"
I sighed. "No, Mum. She didn't. There are people in space who didn't like that shirt."

- HALF MOON INVESTIGATIONS BY EOIN COLFER, PG. 65

Looks

All eyes were on me again, and not in a nice 'Oh, look at that handsome young man in the shiny shoes, I wonder if he's single' kind of way. It was more of a nasty 'If he doesn't come up with the goods in tens seconds, let's lynch him' kind of way.

- HALF MOON INVESTIGATIONS BY EOIN COLFER, PG. 19

Happy Valentine's Day, and may all looks that come your way be the handsome-and-single kind.

Monkeys

Can you, then, offer any sincere advice with no mention of a flying monkey?

- CONOR BROEKHART, AIRMAN BY EOIN COLFER, PG. 55

Driveway

So what's it all about...I hear you cry. Actually I don't hear you, if I did I would be sitting outside in your driveway, which would be a bit freaky and show how few friends I have.

- EOIN COLFER, EXCITING HITCHHIKER'S ANNOUNCEMENT

Denial

You're both in denial. I have that effect on females.

- MULCH DIGGUMS, ARTEMIS FOWL AND THE ETERNITY CODE BY EOIN COLFER, PG. 225

Eoin Colfer week begins today. Somehow I have accumulated an extreme amount of Eoin Colfer one-liners over the years.

Mad

"Do you think this is Southend?"
"Oh yes."
"So do I."
"Therefore we must be mad."
"Nice day for it."
"Yes," said a passing maniac.

- THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY BY DOUGLAS ADAMS, PG. 64

Nice

...nice is what your friend calls the ugly girl he wants you to date! Is that all I am to you? An ugly girl?

- PJ DUNCAN, GOOD LUCK CHARLIE: SEASON 2: EPISODE 4: APPY DAYS

Nonsense

What sinister nonsense are you plotting now?

- RAPUNZEL, RAPUNZEL'S REVENGE BY SHANNON, DEAN AND NATHAN HALE, PG. 143

Toes

MICHAEL: Why are you being so cynical?
SARA: Michael, I think there's cynicism and then there's realism.
MICHAEL: And there's optimism. Hope, faith.
SARA: This coming from an eight-toed guy locked away in a penitentiary?
MICHAEL: Toes are over-rated.

- PRISON BREAK: SEASON 1: EPISODE 10: SLIGHT OF HAND

Flowers

So
I'll continue to continue
To pretend
My life will never end
And flowers will bend with the rainfall

- FLOWERS WILL NEVER BEND WITH THE RAINFALL BY SIMON & GARFUNKEL

Beans

Beans, Frank? Surely not. You know what we'd have then - FRANK AND BEANS!

- AUNT SALLY, THE TROLLS BY POLLY HORVATH

Pest

...the only unusual thing I saw was Turtle Wexler. I think the pest is madly in love with me, how's that for luck?

- DOUG HOO, THE WESTING GAME BY ELLEN RASKIN

More Moustaches

MR. DUNCAN: Why are you wearing a fake moustache?
PJ: ...why aren't you wearing one?

- GOOD LUCK CHARLIE

Shoes

Shoes make me happy. I'm superficial. Whatever.

- SEEN ON THE STOREFRONT OF RUBI SHOES IN SINGAPORE

Moustache

WILL: You don't have to make yourself invisible. You just have to go in disguise.
MARCUS: What, with a moustache and stuff?
WILL: Yeah, right, with a moustache. Nobody would notice a twelve-year-old boy with a moustache, would they?

- ABOUT A BOY BY NICK HORNBY, PG 118

Orange

FRIEND: Orange.
JIN: Orange...
FRIEND: Yes. Love will be...orange.

- LOST: SEASON 2; EPISODE: ...AND FOUND

Potatoes

God gave the Irish the gift of language, and threw in some potatoes as an afterthought.

- THE PRISON DIARIES BY JEFFREY ARCHER

Pee

Friendship is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel its true warmth.

- JACK HANDEY

Horoscope

The good stars met in your horoscope
Made you of spirit and fire and dew

- EVELYN HOPE BY ROBERT BROWNING

Dessert

Life is unsure. Always eat your dessert first.

-ANONYMOUS