“said to him. “We aren’t playing here. Guns kill people.” “Guns don’t kill people,” Tori said. “People kill people.” “People with guns kill people,” I said. “But you’re right. We have to be able to protect ourselves.”
― D.J. MacHale, quote from Storm
“Gotta love Walmart. Where else can you buy Fritos and bullets?”
― D.J. MacHale, quote from Storm
“When I’m on tour, I get to meet hundreds of enthusiastic readers. There is truly nothing better for an author than having someone come up to them and say, “I loved your book.” For that, I’ll take off my shoes at airport x-rays and sit cramped in an airline seat for hours with nothing to eat but a tiny bag of peanuts. It’s totally worth it. Writing”
― D.J. MacHale, quote from Storm
“It took two hours to drive from Portland to Boston. It felt like two days. We”
― D.J. MacHale, quote from Storm
“Home...
It's not just a place, it's a concept. Home is safety. It's where you are surrounded by loved ones who watch out for you. It's the one place where you will always be welcomed, no matter what craziness may be going on around you. I think for most people it's the single more important place in the world.”
― D.J. MacHale, quote from Storm
“beautiful she thought she was. Aunt Sponge had a long-handled mirror on her lap, and she kept picking it up and gazing at her own hideous face. ‘I look and smell,’ Aunt Sponge declared, ‘as lovely as a rose! Just feast your eyes upon my face, observe my shapely nose! Behold my heavenly silky locks! And if I take off both my socks You’ll see my dainty toes.’ ‘But don’t forget,’ Aunt Spiker cried, ‘how much your tummy shows!”
― Roald Dahl, quote from James and the Giant Peach
“I feel ill," [Howl] announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, quote from Howl's Moving Castle
“Tom opened his eyes, and looked upon his master. "Ye poor miserable critter!" he said, "there ain't no more ye can do! I forgive ye, with all my soul!" and he fainted entirely away.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, quote from Uncle Tom's Cabin
“Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.”
― Ralph Ellison, quote from Invisible Man
“And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles”
― Walt Whitman, quote from Leaves of Grass
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