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“She was saying he wasn’t like the children in Christmasland. She was saying he was still himself. But Charlie Manx had said something different.…

— Joe Hill

Cant we go back?to where boys had cooties?the talk was who put their mouth on the fountain?the drama was loosing your crayons?and getting high…

— Sarah Moores

“Far from being offended, Mencheres went over and flawlessly executed a street-style handshake complete with finger slaps, fist bumps, and a high-low finale.”

— Jeaniene Frost

And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never again. They…

— Toni Morrison

“Gryffindor house is home to Nearly Headless Nick, who in life was Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington. Something of a snob, and a less accomplished…

— J.K. Rowling

“Shrieking with rage and frustration she attempted to trace the mysterious symptoms to their source, but the students told her stubbornly they were suffering…

— J.K. Rowling

Every head turned to see two more security guards appear, each holding a Bagshaw by the back of the neck (which might have been…

— Ally Carter

When the police arrived and found no lion, no broken wall, and no convicts, and the Head behaving like a lunatic, there was an…

— Anonymous

“Nora Lindell was gone. And, with Trey Stephens in jail, he was gone, too, in a way. By this time, we'd already lost Minka…

— Hannah Pittard

I think that when [Charles] Dickens met Nelly [Ternan] it unleashed this sort of carnal, anarchic, cruel energy within him, and literally after she…

— Felicity Jones

“They’d tried to diagnose him but there was no apparent medical explanation for his behaviour. He was just what his mum called ‘away with…

— Eve Dangerfield

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.

— Alan Bennett