"The real world is where the monsters are."
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Lightning Thief

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
- Harry Potter, The Goblet Of Fire

"I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun."
- The Hunger Games Trilogy, The Hunger Games

"So there you have it, the extent of my charms: brown hair and eyes like unbarfed chocolate. I'm a lucky girl."
- Maximum Ride, MAX: A Maximum Ride Novel

“She had always found villains more exciting than heroes. They had ambition, passion. They made the stories happen. Villains didn't fear death. No, they wrapped themselves in death like suits of armor! As she inhaled the school's graveyard smell, Agatha felt her blood rush. For like all villains, death didn't scare her. It made her feel alive.”
- The School For The Good and Evil




“We can what-if ourselves to death... But what-if never does anybody any good. All any of us ever have...is one thing, and we better make the most of it while we can: What is.”
- Miracle on 49th Street

"She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a cork board, but the pin merely went through and away she flew."
- Stargirl

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Smiling but panting, she drops the item in her hand beside him. Straddling his body, she leans just above his lips, smiling down at him goofily. "I love you, too," she replies, her smile overly wide, before giving a soft kiss on his lips.

He doesn't breathe. He doesn't move. He can't move.

She climbs off his bloody body, the grin still on her face. She skips towards the door, humming along to the tune of her head.