Fantasy
"YOU SHALL NOT PASS"
Lord of the Rings
Gandalf the Grey
“Eddie discovered one of his childhood’s great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.”
Stephen King, It
Eddie Kaspbrak
“You are not a grenade, not to us. Thinking about you dying makes us sad, Hazel, but you are not a grenade. You are amazing. You can’t know, sweetie, because you’ve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows.”
The Fault in our stars
Mr. Lancaster
"May the odds ever be in your favor"
Hunger Games
Caesar Flickerman, President Snow, Effie Trinket, Katniss Everdeen
"That's the City I see in my dreams, Poppy. It isn't like Ember at all. The sky is light and the buildings are tall and sort of sparkle."
City of Ember
Jeanne DuPraua
"Don't let the muggles get you down"
Harry Potter (Prisoner of Azkaban)
Ron Weasley
“But to die as lovers may – to die together, so that they may live together.”
Carmilla
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
"I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way, his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world."
Song of Achilles
Patroclus
Maze Runner
Newt
"In that moment he was not the Prince who had brought a broken android to the market or almost kissed her in an elevator. He was her Emperor.
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles)
Linh Cinder
"So you're worried, not because you'll be in a house full of vampires, but because you think they won't approve of you"
Twilight
Edward Cullen
“What looked like morning was the beginning of endless night”
The Exorcist
“I’m suddenly desperate to drink in every drop of his being, desperate to savor every moment I’ve never known before. I suddenly worry that there’s an expiration date on this phenomenon.”
Shatter Me
Juliette Ferrars
“It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset.”
The Outsiders
Ponyboy
″... the Pretty Committee was a global institution that made sure pretties were all more or less the same. It would ruin the whole point of the operation if the people from one city wound up prettier than everyone else.”
Uglies
Tally Youngblood
Shadow and Bone
Alina Starkov
“Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer–both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.”
Dracula
Bram Stoker
Ugly Love
Colleen Hoover
The selection
Kirea Cass
“The chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.”
Divergent
Tobias
“I like music," she said slowly, "because when I hear it, I . . . I lose myself within myself, if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once, and I can feel the whole earth roiling around me. When I play. I'm not . . . for once, I'm not destroying, I'm creating.”
Throne of Glass
Celaena Sardothien
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"
The Shining
“My heart stopped. It just stopped beating. And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the world is moving all around you, all beneath you, all inside you, and you're floating. Floating in midair. And the only thing keeping you from drifting away is the other person's eyes. They're connected to yours by some invisible physical force, and they hold you fast while the rest of the world swirls and twirls and falls completely away.”
Flipped
Wendelin Van Draanen
“Always in the dream, it seemed as if there were a destination: a something--he could not grasp what-that lay beyond the place where the thickness of snow brought the sled to a stop. He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the distance. The feeling that it was good. That it was welcoming. That it was significant. But he did not know how to get there.”
The Giver
Jonas
"When it was decided that people needed to die in order to ease the tide of population growth, it was also decided that this must be the responsibility of humans. Bridge repair and urban planning could be handled by the Thunderhead, but taking a life was an act of conscience and consciousness. Since it could not be proven that the Thunderhead had either, the Scythedom was born."
Scythe
Curie