Cat tongues are awesome." --Nellie Gomez, The 39 Clues, Beyond The Grave

If the body is pampered, the mind is free to concentrate.

C'mon, Amy, cinnamon rolls are calling us." Dan put a hand to his ear. "Do you hear? 'Amy? Dan?'" he squeaked. "'Come and get my sugary, sticky goodness!

If you think something is impossible, it is. Until you decide it’s possible and you do it.

I loved him like a fever. Then he left. He kicked through love like it was dust and he kept on walking.

When a family breaks you don't hear the crack of the breaking. You don't hear a sound.

Amy sighed. Just when she started to almost like Ian again—after all, he'd flown across the ocean and had been working around the clock to help—his snob quotient went through the roof.

I drove in last night,' he said. 'I couldn't sleep, it was too hot. So I went outside. I was feeling melancholy. Then I danced with a beautiful girl, and I felt better. What's your story?

Oh, terrific," Dan muttered. "Just what we need. Another code! Why can't people just say what they mean? Why can't they say THE MAP IS IN THE DESK?

I'm so hungry," Amy said sleepily. "Hey, you stole my line," Dan said.

I loved all the parts of him, even the ones I didn't understand.

Thoughts and feelings produce actions. Sinful thoughts and feelings produce sinful actions.

Podtyagin considers whether to take offence or not -- and decides to take offence.

You look at our borders, they're like swiss cheese, everybody pours in.

World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace

It is because of men that women dislike one another.

You exist but as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before you. The common due impends; while you live, and while you may, be good.

Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring.

I basically try not to waste any lines in any of my songs, and I think the witty phrases and funny lyrics I have bring a smarter sound to college hip-hop.

So who are you then, Todd Hewitt?" he says. "What makes you so special?" Now that, I think, is a very good asking.

Never check email first thing in the morning. Instead, complete your most important task before 11:00 A.M. to avoid using lunch or reading email as a postponement excuse.