But if you really looked, Rhan thought. If you looked beyond the powers and the villains and the plots to take over the universe. There was just a guy. Somebody who was alone, who'd been cut off from other people by disaster or birth. There was just a guy who wanted so bad to make things right.


-- Diana Wieler, Ran Van the Defender

"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"

Dumbledore, in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowlling

 an Anti-Valentine quote:

A.A. Milne - The House at Pooh Corner

"What did you say it was?" he asked.

"Tigger."

"Ah!" said Eeyore.

"He's just come," explained Piglet.

"Ah!" said Eeyore again.

He thought for a long time and then said:

"When is he going?"

 contributed by Al Hargreaves

This is the opening line to Stormbreaker, the first novel in the Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz:

"When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it's never good news."

I totally agree!--  Sherrie Petersen

This submission was GREAT, but longish-- almost the whole story-- but I trimmed it to this wonderful concluding verse--Donna Farley)

Here's a quote from a Debi Gliori picture book, she writes and illustrates and is based in Edinburgh - my hero!

"No Matter What" by Debi Gliori

'Small, look at the stars - how they shine and glow, but some of those stars died a long time ago.

still they shine in the evening skies

love, like starlight, never dies.'

Makes me well up, every - single - time. :-)

Katherine Sanders