Paranormal. It rolls off the tongue with such poetry, but it means something like, beyond normal. There is nothing paranormal about magic. Magic is the norm. —Penny Sweeney Magic All Around

— Marcy L. Peska

Pete's a good guy."" He just slept with my mother!"" I didn't say he was perfect.

— Debbie Macomber

Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and ISBN looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.

— John Green

She'd taken ten years off his life, frightening him the way she had, and now he'd easily subtracted another ten by kissing her. If he spent much more time with Jenna Campbell, he'd be dead inside a week.

— Debbie Macomber

She has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale."DO NOT OBJECTIFY WOMEN'S BODIES!" Alaska shouted. Now he looked up. "Sorry. Perky breasts."" That's not any better!

— John Green

She lifted me back into the seat with a wicked grin, and breathed, 'Just don’t stop talking. Whatever you do, just don’t stop talking,' and swallowed my manhood. I scrambled desperately through the darkened corners of my memory until I couldn’t take it anymore. I grabbed her by the hair and said, 'Now bend over, and I’ll do to you what the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries wants to keep the Federal government from doing to the state of Alaska.

— Phillip Andrew Bennett Low

She said, "It's not life or death, the labyrinth."" Um, okay. So what is it?"" Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?... Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Judge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

— John Green

Smoke rose straight up from the chimney, as if the house raised its hand. As if the house knew the answer.

— Seré Prince Halverson

Teenagers think they are invincible” with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. Furthermore, we cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.

— John Green

The important thing for any writer to remember is to take the writing seriously, but not the writer.

— A.E. Poynor