“Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.”— PG Wodehouse, amazon.com
“You don’t know about me, without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but that ain’t no matter. That book was made by a Mr Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“There is one mirror in my house. It is behind a sliding panel in the hallway upstairs. Our faction allows me to stand in front of it on the second day of every third month, the day my mother cuts my hair.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.”— John Green, amazon.com
“Not for the first time, an argument had broken out over breakfast at number four, Privet Drive.”— JK Rowling, amazon.com
“The screw through Cinder’s ankle had rusted, the engraved cross marks worn to a mangled circle.”— Marissa Meyer, amazon.com
“First the colors. Then the humans. That’s usually how I see things. Or at least, how I try.”— Markus Zusak, amazon.com
“Where's Papa going with that axe?' said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.”— E.B. White, amazon.com
“It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.”— Roald Dahl, amazon.com
“This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.”— William Goldman, amazon.com
“It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression ‘As pretty as an airport.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“"When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.”— John Wyndham, amazon.com
“When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week, then there’s either something wrong with your skills or something wrong with your world.”— Jonathan Maberry, amazon.com
“The morning after noted child prodigy Colin Singleton graduated from high school and got dumped for the 19th time by a girl named Katherine, he took a bath.”— John Green, amazon.com
“In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.”— Norman Maclean, amazon.com
“A white Pomeranian named Fluffy flew out of the a fifth-floor window in Panna, which was a grand-new building with the painter’s scaffolding still around it. Fluffy screamed.”— Vikram Chandra, amazon.com