“A man searches for something that will outlast his life.” - Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card, p. 94

“You seem to think that anything you don’t know isn’t worth knowing.” - Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card, p. 109

“…I sometimes think I got more from pursuing that dream, and not accomplishing it, then I did from many of the ones I did accomplish.” – The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, p. 53 (large print edition)

“Most days I couldn’t even pinpoint how I felt.” – Hate List by Jennifer Brown, p. 10

” ‘Ignorance is not a tragedy,’ said Anton, ‘merely an opportunity.  But to know and refuse to know what you know, that is foolishness.’ ” -Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card, p. 91

” ‘All we did,’ said Father, ‘was what we knew that tomorrow you would have wished we had done today.’ ” - Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card, p. 195

“Figuring out who people are takes time.  Takes twice as much time if they’re trying to impress you.” – Thirteen on House, “Private Lives”

“No, Bean was being childish because he had no idea how to be manly, and so it was Petra’s job to help him figure it out.” - Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card, p. 45

“Does anyone really appreciate life while they have it?” – While I Live by John Marsden, p. 35

“For the more influence and power they believed he had, the more influence and power he actually had.” - Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card, p. 78

“When you’re screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they’ve given up on you.” – The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, p. 55 (large print edition)

” ‘Fight,’ he said. ‘If you fight, you win or you lose.  If you don’t fight, you lose.’ ” – While I Live by John Marsden, p. 52

” ‘We don’t always get the leader that we want,’ said Graff.  ’But sometimes we get to choose among the leaders that we have.’ ” – Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card, p. 31

When asked about the death of a friend and fellow skier: “Just reminds me that it’s all about skiing…nothing else.” – Julia Mancuso, US alpine skier

“It is in conflict that our values are exposed.” – Genesis by Bernard Beckett, p. 88

“You fight dirty.”
“I fight like a girl.” – Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card, p. 12

“You can’t call it a flaw…this is the way they were designed.” – Captain Janeway, Star Trek Voyager, “Prototype”

” ‘There needs to be nothing special about the match that lights the fire,’ was their motto, ‘save that it is the match that lights the fire.’ ” – Genesis by Bernard Beckett, p. 13

“Is it a name that lets someone know they’re going to be different?” – Into the Wild Nerd Yonder by Julie Halpern, p. 2

“Kids drained everything but blood from you, their maturation feeding off molecules siphoned directly from the nearest adult in charge.” – Murderer’s Daughters by Randy Susan Meyers, p. 227

“I don’t think anyone really intends to die for what they want, for their cause.  Somewhere in their mind they think they’ll survive.” – 13th Hour by Richard Doetsch, p. 201

“I sob partly because of the ending of Elsewhere, but mostly because, as I put it so eloquently to my dad, ‘I don’t want to be a nerd.’ ” – Into the Wild Nerd Yonder by Julie Halpern, p. 132

“Khadija is always frightened of something and this time it was about having a daughter.” – The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad, p. 252

“That is what it is.  We can’t change it.  We just have to decide how we’ll respond.  We cannot chnage the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.” – The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch, p. 32 (large print edition)

“You don’t have to eat the entire turd to know that it’s not a crab cake.” – Bean in Shadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card

“I realized that when everything is stripped away from you and you have nothing, you find out what you really are down deep inside.” – In the Presence of My Enemies by Gracia Burnham, p. 162

“I can’t believe she ran out of answers before I did.” – Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson, p. 14

“…you must also own Religion in his rags, as well as when in his silver slippers; and stand by him, too, when bound in irons, as well as when he walketh the streets with applause.” – Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan, p. 92

“Human nature seems to find ways to justify its wrong doing, to move ahead with what serves its self-interest, and then to figure out an explanation so it doesn’t sound so bad.” – In the Presence of My Enemies by Gracia Burnham, p. 192

“The Cross is God’s answer to the question ‘Why don’t you do something about evil?’ ” – If God is Good by Randy Alcorn, p. 206

“It’s hard to believe the old saying that ‘things happen for a reason’ when the things happening to you are god-awful and you just want them to be over with.” – The Year We Disappeared by Cylin Busby and John Busby, p. 142

“…to my fellow Christians I feel compelled to say [about Islam]: We need to find ways to defuse the raging resentment and hatred that fuels ‘holy war’ and introduce a God who does more than demand rituals–he truly loves us.” – In the Presence of My Enemies by Gracia Burnham, p. 304

“And I’ve discovered that most people I’m afraid of are actually very friendly.” – When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead, p. 26

Sorry so many quotes. It’s really more for my benefit…I want a central place for me to be able to find them! If a few catch your eye as well, that’s great.

“I remembered thinking how hard it was to contemplate death from a comfortable chair.” - The Host by Stephenie Meyer, p. 127

“As will be the case throughout your life, no matter how long or brief [the urge], the choice is, in the end, yours.  Simply bear in mind that most every choice will have consequences, and in this instance those consequences would likely be quite grave.” – Everything Matters! by Ron Currie, Jr., p. 4

“Whether we agree or not, the process of engaging my children in critical examination of the books they read, the television they watch, the films they see, and the video games they play is essential.” – “Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” by Beverly Daniel Tatum, p. 48

“We will all become the men and women we strive (or don’t strive) to be.” - Do Hard Things byAlex and Brent Harris, p. 56

“…here in East Carmine curiosity only ends one way.”

“Death?”
“Worse–enlightenment.” – Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde, p. 110

“In years to come, he would be a giver of bread, not a stealer–proof again of the contradictory human being.  So much good, so much evil.  Just add water.” – The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, p. 164

“Perhaps we were none of us as rare as we thought.” – The Host by Stephenie Meyer, p. 619

“Forgive me if I have tried to add anything to the one foundation,
if I have unconsciously relied upon my knowledge, experience, deeds and not seen them as filthy rags,
if I have attempted to complete what is perfect in Christ;
May my cry be always, only Jesus! only Jesus!” – “The Life Look” in The Valley of Vision, p. 54

“For a combat soldier, the difference between success and failure is your ability to adapt to your enemy.” – Jack Bauer in 24, season 7, 8:00 AM

“…a human being is a shell made of skin keeping the cells, blood, and chemical components in place.  Very few end up in history books.  Most people succomb and disappear without a trace.” – Character Martin Vanger in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, p. 453

“We’re not like them, Kate.  That’s the entire point of trying to stop them.” – Milligan in The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilious Journey by Trenton Lee Stewart, p. 255

“There is a great gulf between the Christianity that wrestles with whether to worship at the cost of imprisonment and death, and the Christianity that wrestles with whether the kids should play soccer on Sunday morning.” - The Hidden Smile of God by John Piper, p. 164

“I find myself thinking: ‘I didn’t mean to be White, I realy didn’t mean it.’ ” – quote in “Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” by Beverly Daniel Tatum, p. 102

“The four of you really think you can stop this.” – Renee Walker

“We have to. It’s as simple as that.” – Jack Bauer, 24, 2:00 PM

“Whom you take out a mortgage with is mostly an accident of geography and economics, and has nothing to do with destiny.” – Everything Matters! by Ron Currie, Jr., p. 62

“Plus, maybe we all felt a bit guilty about leaving him on his own in Hell, even though that’s what he’d wanted.” – Killing Frost by John Marsden, p. 75

“Why do Black youths, in particular, think about themselves in terms of race?  Because that is how the rest of the world thinks of them.” -“Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” by Beverly Daniel Tatum, p. 53

“Most of the White people I talk to either have not thought about their race and so don’t feel anything, or have thought about it and felt guilt and shame.  These feelings of guilt and shame are part of the hidden costs of racism.” - “Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” by Beverly Daniel Tatum, p. 94

“Yes, Ellie the Fearless was embarrassed to be seen with bad table manners. I think that’s when I knew for sure I wasn’t a natural born terrorist.” – Killing Frost by John Marsden, p. 219

“I knew that I had a choice.  I could give in to my resentment and allow it to dig me into a deeper and deeper hole both psychologically and emotionally, or I could choose to believe what God’s Word says to be true whether I felt it was or not.” – In the Presence of My Enemies by Gracia Burnham, p. 142

“I stood looking at it thinking how they’d both make good engineers when they were older, then went into a big downer reminding myself that they were unlikely to survive long enough to have the luxury of becoming engineers or anything else.  Becoming a corpse wasn’t much of a future.” – The Night is for Hunting by John Marsden, p. 184

“If man created problems, man can solve them.” – Mitchell Joakim in a Honda commercial

“I am concerned that our reading and our writing is gravitating to the lowest common denominator so completely that the great themes of majesty and nobility and felicity are made to seem trite, puny, pedestrain….In this day and age having nothing at all to say does not disqualify a person from writing a book.  The sad truth is that many authors simply have never learned to reflect substantively on anything.” – Richard Foster in The Hidden Smile of God by John Piper, p. 153

“I woke up each day with nothing to accomplish–nothing at all, except to stay alive.” – In the Presence of My Enemies by Gracia Burnham, p, 70

“…belief in odd things isn’t against the Rules, as long as it’s done on your own time and you don’t try to convince anyone else.” – Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde, p. 40

I know this is a huge number of quotes, but I can’t exclude any.  Really, this is as much for me…I enjoy these quotes and by putting them here, I not only get to share them, but I get to access them.  I hope you’ll enjoy and/or ponder them like I did!

“Large numbers of books always depressed her, as did people who liked to read large numbers of books.” – Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, p. 159

“I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.” – Abraham Lincoln, quoted in Amen, Amen, Amen by Abby Sher

“And know this: people who seek only happiness never find it.” – Blue in Snow by Orhan Pamuk, p. 350

“I was like a lost moon–my planet destroyed in some cataclysmic, disaster-movie scenario of desolation–that continued, nevertheless, to circle in a tight little orbit around the empty space left behind, ignoring the laws of gravity.” - New Moon by Stephenie Meyer, p. 201

“As people like Stubbs and MAx Carter have taught me, education and piety are not mutually exclusive, and the sooner this school’s higher-ups take this to heart, the sooner Liberty students can go about the business of loving God with their minds.” - The Unlikely Disciple by Kevin Roose, p. 249

“It was so unfair.  I didn’t ask to be white.  I didn’t think I was being braver just because I was white.” – Little Brother by Cory Doctorow, 160

“How did you know about Steampunk?”
“Uh, you mentioned it online somewhere.”
“You’ve been reading my blog. A lot.” – “Random on Purpose,” NCIS: LA (probably how my first conversation with a date would go, minus the Steampunk)

“Suddenly Kira knew that although her door was unlocked, she was not really free.” - Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry, p. 153

“I could remember every stupid thing I’d ever said or done, recall them with picture-perfect clarity.  Any time I was feeling low, I’d naturally start to remember other times I felt that way, a hit parade of humiliations coming one after another to my mind.” – Little Brother by Cory Doctorow, 294

“The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others.”  - The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson

“Hope the French fleas eat you both alive.
And your room smells
And the toilet doesn’t flush
And locals treat you mean
And the service takes too long.” – “Mon Amour” sung by Shakira (I have nothing to be bitter about, but I thought this was funny)

“Some boast in chariots and some in horses, but we will boast in the name of the LORD, our God.” – Psalm 20:7, NASU

“Why, Scarlett!  You must have been reading a newspaper!  I’m surprised at you.  Don’t do it again.  It addles women’s brains.” – Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, p. 331

“I gave you my heart and a sweet love letter
but you gave them right back and said you like her better” – “Average Girl” sung by Emily Osment

“Because it made her happy to think so, she believed he would.” – Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

“But there’s not a coward in the world who doesn’t dream of the day when he might find himself capable of great courage.” – Snow by Orhan Pamuk, p. 350

” ‘What is it about writing for teenagers that leads to so much censorship?’ ….It’s because grown-ups don’t remember what it was like when they were teenagers.  Not really.  They remember something out of a Disney movie and that’s where they want to keep us.” – Liar by Justine Larbalestier, p. 137