Leaves lift trees.

Life outside is changing our world. We are losing our culture, loosing our roots. How can a living thing grow if its roots are cut?

They were being poisoned.

Nearly all men have weak hearts, in one way or another.

Sometimes what we don’t want is actually what we need.

This is sooo cool. I love this place. This looks way better than a day spotting weird people at Walmart.

You’ve been one busy worm!

It is good practice to never fault someone for their birth name, being that it is always of far greater importance how men speak of you, than the name by which you are addressed.

When he wasn’t busy chasing unseen mice around the academy, Ion spent hours in the Borean Study, searching through dusty books for anything that had to do with the banshee or the Shroud. But finding...

Don’t worry yourself. It is better that you are cautious and safe than to be accepting and sorry. Trust must be earned. I hope I have now earned yours.

Toad must have been very accustomed to traveling this way, balanced on the back rails of a rushing buggy, but Melena was not. She gripped the sides and white-knuckled the rails with her knapsack sandwiched...

Only worse thing than being cold, and too tired to defend yourself, is to be cold and alone. And I wouldn’t ever wish that on nobody.

No one is only one thing, my dear.

Tugs used to think that everyone’s name was in the dictionary, and when she had realized it was only hers, both Tugs and Button, she felt suddenly fond and possessive of it, as if this...

The smell of dead fish lingered in the air, and excited flies darted from fish to fish lapping up the decay.

Look how we have made our broken hearts soar.

And, to be true, an enemy’s lair is an enemy’s lair, no matter how comfortable or fancy it might appear.

Her courage seemed to collapse around her ankles like an old pair of elastic undies

If there’s one thing Robert had learned in three weeks at Lovecraft Middle School, it’s that nothing was impossible.

Yes. Every day we learn new things Donkor. These mortals have some funny ways don’t they?” – Quest Two: The Cursed Nile

Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth.

I’m not sure what he’s saying , but by the way he’s checking you out, it looks like you’re gonna need a restraining order soon.” ~ Treena Mui

Etta gave Will a small, knowing smile. “Will, sometimes you have to love people for who they are, not who you want them to be.

You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don’t do…

It was the first time her eyes had really met mine and to be honest I think there was more warmth between the lamb chops in the freezer.” Daniel meeting Felicity in Cousin Felicity and...

Looking at my reflection tonight, I see a new girl staring back at me. She has big hair and big eyes and a big heart. Not only is she the perfect size and pretty…she is...

You know, Dorothy, you can’t let people bring you down so easily or you’ll have your nose in the dirt for the rest of your life. From what I make of it, for every person...

It is hard to imagine the things you have never seen.

I’d always known that when you went through one of these doors, you went to another planet, and that that other planet might be so far away, you couldn’t fly there in spaceship in a...

I’m at a camp with over 100 girls 11 to 13 years old, around my own age, and I feel like my parents are my only friends. -Mackenzie

You belong with us, the lost of the lost, the tribe without a home, a tribe of orphans living our abandoned lives amid toys and trinkets, stuffed monkeys and bears. You’re one of us now—the...

To travel beyond our world is to change this present one forever.

I mean that we are both in space and inside the tower at the same time.””Why is it so dark here?” Ni asked.”At the beginning, it is always dark.” Simone replied, “Then everything comes into...

I don’t always think of myself as ethnic…my mom is Black, and my dad is White, and we like to call my race”Bi-racial”. Everyone at camp is interesting because they just call me Black. -Mackenzie

Take courage. You do not yet see your own abilities because you have never been tested. You have never demonstrated to yourself or anyone all that you can do. Put your fears aside and trust...

And it is a strange thing about love… it is that it can take a strength that would seem otherwise insignificant and transform it into a hardly quenchable power.

I love to walk through snow, to climb mountains, to smell the fresh air and I love to dream about flying. Soaring through the air, watching the earth from above, feeling the wind in my...

When I was in the third grade, I did my very best to fail every class so that the kids would like me and stop calling me a teacher’s pet. It did not work out...

…and now over to our foriegn allegory correspondant, Barv Tweezman.” ~The Shielding of Mortimer Townes

Now, he’d loved money for money’s sake. He loved the feel of it, not only in his hands, but also in his heart.

A word is a small song.

The momentary darkness gave way to scores of small glowing lights. Blaise stepped into a candlelit room filled with people and furniture. ‘Where are we?” he asked Livia. “How can a whole other room be...

Small Acts of Kindness are Priceless

If you always try to measure yourself withmoney… well, it’s like counting backwards, the more youkeep on, the less you’ll have to show for it.