“FABLEHAVEN: None who enter will leave unchanged. Trespassers will be turned to stone.”

“When jumping is the sole option, you jump, and try to make it work.”

“Excruciating agony makes me cranky.”

“A crossbow? Pigeon asked.I left my battle-ax in my other jeans, the man said.”

“I like pancakes.”

“Could you just call me Pigeon? he asked the teacher when she read his name.Does your mother call you Pigeon?No.Then to me you are Paul....Nathan Sutter, the teacher read.My mother never calls me Na...”

“It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a s...”

“Home should never be dark or full of shadows and secrets. It should be bright and full of open doors. It should be full of stories wanting to be told.”

“Suddenly, I can't move. I can't speak. I am set in stone, but it's a glorious chiseled sort of stone.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”