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“Well fine, then. I could send you out to win my favor. Possibly on a quest involving bringing a large mug of coffee and a doughnut. Or the wholesale slaughter of all my enemies. I haven't decided which.”

“Mutually assured destruction.”

“I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have.”

“The only way to end grief was to go through it.”

“There's a monster in our wood. She'll get you if you're not good. Drag you under leaves and sticks. Punish you for all your tricks. Anest of hair and gnawed bone. You are never, ever coming… home.”

“Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill monsters and feel quite proud of themselves.”

“All boys lie," Ben said. "And all girls lie, too. I lie. You lie. Don't pretend you don't.”

“Every child needs a tragedy to become truly interesting.”

“We love until we do not. For us, love doesn't fade gradually. It snaps like a branch bent too far.”

“Hazel never cried. She was forged from iron; she never broke.”

“Down a path worn into the woods, past a stream and a hollowed-out log full of pill bugs and termites, was a glass coffin. It rested right on the ground, and in it slept a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives.”

“You and your sister are very dear to each other. To show your regard, you give each other lovely bouquets of lies.”

“Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.”

“Hazel, Hazel, blue of eye. Kissed the boys and made them cry”

“If she'd known she was going to die at his hands, she would have dressed up.”

“The first boy I fell in love with didn't know I loved him, but he managed to break my heart anyway.”

“It is my belief that books are living things…. And as living things, they need to be protected.”

“Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.”

“Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.”