Michael Grant
And yes, we do have some food. Maybe you'd like to join us? Unless you want to stick with your sheep sushi.Collection: Sheep
If God gives you a Quiznos, can I have a bite? No way. You have to pray for your own food.Collection: Food
We didn't Make this World we're just the Poor Fools who are living in it.Collection: World
Dekka laughed... "Sam: you're still the leader. You're always going to be the leader. It's not something you choose: it's something you are.Collection: Leader
It's not about who's got powers, morons. It's about who's not afraid. And who's going to do what has to be done.Collection: Done
It's vital to keep a sense of humour when the world seems to have suddenly become a very strange place.Collection: Strange Places
Sam, there comes a time when the world no longer needs heroes. And then the true hero knows to walk away.Collection: Hero
A man without pleasure is a man without any idea what life is aboutCollection: Men
But when reality was hopeless, fantasy became more and more necessary.Collection: Reality
The light of day showed you the limits of possibility. But walk through the dark, the absolute, total darkness, and the possibilities were limitless.Collection: Dark
He's one kind of person, you're another. When life is going along normally, you're sort of the same. But when life turns strange and scary, when there's a crisis, suddenly you're completely different people.Collection: People
In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king. In the darkness the man with a candle is an easy target.Collection: Kings
One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No 'poof.' No flash of light. No explosion.Collection: Teacher
Ninth graders with machine guns: its hard to make that a happy story.Collection: Gun
I had a hard childhood. Hard for my parents. Not that bad for me.Collection: Childhood
In the land of the blind, a one eyed man is kingCollection: Kings
The pain was her whole world now. Pain and fear.Collection: Pain
You cant be trapped by other people you can only be trapped by your fear, defy and win!Collection: Winning
Sometimes I think He looks down and says, "Wow, look what those idiots are up to now. I guess I better help them along a little.Collection: Thinking
Its the fate of all creators: They fall in love with their creations.Collection: Falling In Love
You'll never have complete control, Caine. This world is changing all the time. Animals. People. Who knows what's next? We didn't' make this world, we're just the poor fools who are living in it.Collection: Animal
Things will be different this time," Caine said. "There was too much contention, too much violence the last time. I tried to be a peaceful leader. But thing went badly." "I wonder why," Diana muttered. "These people," Caine said grandly, sweeping his arm towards the town, "need more than a leader. They need...a king.Collection: Kings
She placed her palm over his wound, pressing as hard as she dared. She would stop the blood. She would hold him and stop his life from escaping. She would hold life inside him and he wouldn’t dieCollection: Blood
Because that, more than any monster, was what Sam had feared: that he was weak and cowardly. He had a terrible fear of being afraid.Collection: Monsters
The warrior who had gone out from the lake to save his people by slaying the evil one was now just a boy sitting in the dirt with his fingers in a mane of blond hair. He stared at nothing. Expected nothing. Planned nothing. Just sat.Collection: Warrior
Dont hurt me,'Caine whispered. He didnt have the will to look up at her. Gaia laughed. "Have you seen Mother? I seem to have lost her.Collection: Mother
I had a polynomial once. My doctor removed it.Collection: Doctors
You're staring," Lana said. "Yes. I am. I'm a teenage boy. Beautiful girls in wet underwear have a tendency to cause staring in teenage boys.Collection: Beautiful
I came up with myself. FAYZ. Spelled F-A-Y-Z. It stands for Fallout Alley Youth Zone. Fallout Alley, and nothing but kids." Howard laughed his mean laugh. "Don't worry, Astrid, it's just a FAYZ. Get it? Just a FAYZ.Collection: Mean
Deep down, she's a good person, Diana is," Caine said, and sighed. "Deep down, I'm not. But she is.Collection: Good Person
It's over, Sam. Finally." "Yeah," he said. "I guess it is." "Turn out the light, Sam." Sam reached for the switch and turned out the light.Collection: Light
but I know you're the brightest shooting star in the sky - AstridCollection: Stars
Sometimes, if I really strain my brain, I can even do multiplication.Collection: Brain
She was scared. Scared of dying.Collection: Dying
Say it. But..." "But what?" he asked. She whispered it, sounding too vulnerable. "But only if its the truth, Caine. Only. If." "I love you," he said.Collection: Love You
No, I love watching autopsies of disgusting mutant monstersCollection: Monsters
It was a sphincter at the top of a black bowl. A fitting commentary on the FAYZ, Diana thought. A giant sphincter.Collection: Black
I've never been able to grow an organ back," Lana said. "Last time I tried... Let's just hope you don't end up with whip eyes.Collection: Fear
Penny said two words, the second of which was "you." Caine laughed. "I think you meant '---- you, Your Highness.Collection: Thinking
No one vinces me, babyCollection: Baby
You don't look so much like a great hero,' Jarrah said. 'I'm pretty sure I'm not,' Mack said wearily. 'My throat is hoarse from screaming in terror. I don't think heroes have that problem.Collection: Hero
Smart stupid. Stupid smart.Collection: Smart
Hey, thanks for stopping by," Howard said. "I'd offer you some tea and cookies, but all we have is boiled mole and artichokes. Plus, we kind of have a dead girl in the living room.Collection: Girl
He wanted to go running home to Mommy, what can I say? Of course, it's hard for me to believe that anyone would choose to step out of the FAYZ. I mean, where else do you get to eat rats, use your backyard for a toilet, and live in fear for nineteen different kinds of scary?" -HowardCollection: Running
So asking you to take a moonlit walk with me, that would totally not work?" "What?" Again that glare. "Go away. Stop being an idiot. I don't even know you." "You're healing my little brother Bowie." "Yeah, that doesn't make us friends, kid." "So no moonlight." "Are you retarded?" "Sunrise? I could get up early." "Go away." "Sunset tomorrow?" -Sanjit & LanaCollection: Brother
No you sick, stupid creep, I love you. I shouldn't. I shouldn't. You're sick inside, Caine, sick! But I love you. - DianaCollection: Stupid
She was no longer theirs. She was his. And he was hers. And this was their world.Collection: World
So, Diana thought, that was the bait she had to lay out for Jack. Of course. What else? He might lust for Diana, and long for Brianna, but Jack’s true love was made of silicon.Collection: Long
Which was how Britteny ended up nestled next to Mickey, under the shelter of a painter's drop cloth. She felt no pain. She saw no light. She heard, but barely. Her heart was still and silent. Yet she did not die.Collection: Pain
Superpowers, don't always make you a superhero. - DuckCollection: Ducks