Beatrice Sparks (1917–2012) American writer
Source: Go Ask Alice
Clary held the phone away from her ear as he cracked up laughing. "That is so not funny!"
Simon and Clary, pg. 19
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
Beatrice Sparks (1917–2012) American writer
Source: Go Ask Alice
“I'm an ice sculptor - last night I made a cube.”
Mitch Hedberg (1968–2005) American stand-up comedian
Do You Believe in Gosh?
“Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind”
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!
Cole Porter (1891–1964) American composer and songwriter
"Ev'rything I Love" (1941)
Let's Face It (1941)
Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments
Clary and Simon, pg. 474
The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
Angie Thomas (1988) American author
On looking to the next generation for hope in “Author Angie Thomas: Burn It All Down Or Use Those Emotions In My Art” https://www.ttbook.org/interview/author-angie-thomas-burn-it-all-down-or-use-those-emotions-my-art in To the Best of Our Knowledge (2019 Jan 14)
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
Home Burial (1915)
Context: A man must partly give up being a man
With womenfolk. We could have some arrangement
By which I'd bind myself to keep hands off
Anything special you're a-mind to name.
Though I don't like such things 'twixt those that love.
Two that don't love can't live together without them.
But two that do can't live together with them."
She moved the latch a little. "Don't — don't go.
Don't carry it to someone else this time.
Tell me about it if it's something human.
Let me into your grief. I'm not so much
Unlike other folks as your standing there
Apart would make me out. Give me my chance.