“Most people never choose anything. They are chosen for, or they follow what is left to them after their choices have been eaten away by time, by ill fortune, by their own actions or the deeds of others.”
– Jay Lake, Green, page 245-246
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Paperback, 368 pages
Published February 15th 2011 by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
A goddess is the sum of all her believers, all the prayers and hopes and curses and despair ever uttered in her name.
– Jay Lake, Green, page 178
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Paperback, 368 pages
Published February 15th 2011 by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
“We each pace against the bars that cage us.”
“Your cage is the world,” I said in frustration, though I did not mean to strike for his heart.
“Everyone’s cage is the world. Some worlds are smaller than others.”
– Jay Lake, Green, page 85
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Paperback, 368 pages
Published February 15th 2011 by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
“Is it a manly game,” he asked, for while men are ruled by their loins, those loins have two small brains each no larger than an olive and thus do not think well.
– Jay Lake, Green, page 69
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Paperback, 368 pages
Published February 15th 2011 by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
People’s lives and deaths are written in polite notes that must be passed among the powerful like dance cards.
– Jay Lake, Green, page 27
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Paperback, 368 pages
Published February 15th 2011 by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
For she — yes, even she — would go out of the world willy-nilly someday. Just go out, like the flame of a candle, and no use protesting. It was a certainty.
– Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting, page 63
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Paperback, 139 pages
Published August 21st 2007 by Square Fish
The ownership of land is an odd thing when you come to think of it. How deep, after all, can it go? IF a person owns a piece of land, does he own it all the way down, in ever narrowing dimensions, till it meets all other pieces at the center of the earth? Or does ownership consist only of a thin crust under which the friendly worms have never heard of trespassing?
– Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting, page 7
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Paperback, 139 pages
Published August 21st 2007 by Square Fish
My whole life, I always thought that I was the only imposter. That everyone else was certain they were real in some way that I could never understand. But what if they’re all just faking too?
Maybe none of us know who we really are.
– Scott Westerfeld, Imposters, page 262
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Paperback, 405 pages
Published April 30th 2019 by Scholastic Press
History books say that kings and dukes and general start wars. Don’t believe them. We start them, you and I. Every time we turn away, keep quiet, stay out of it, behave ourselves.
– Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister, page 46
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Hardcover, 352 pages
Published May 14th 2019 by Scholastic Press
The wolves in the woods have sharp teeth and long claws, but it’s the wolf inside who will tear you apart.
– Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister, page 43
Version:
Hardcover, 352 pages
Published May 14th 2019 by Scholastic Press
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