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Quote by Jeanne DuPrau

“He says I'm beautiful as a red tomato”

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This omnibus includes multiple novels set in a post-apocalyptic world where a mysterious event has left the world in darkness. The stories follow the struggles of the inhabitants as they attempt to restore light and order to their world. more

Author

Jeanne DuPrau

Jeanne DuPrau is an American science fiction author, best known for her novel 'The Uglies' which is the first book in the 'Uglies' trilogy. The book tells the story of a group of children who rebuild civilization after a nuclear war. more

“We know summer is the height of of being alive. We don't believe in God or the prospect of an afterlife mostly, so we know that we're only given eighty summers or so per lifetime, and each one has to be better then the last, has to encompass a trip to that arts center up at Bard, a seemingly mellow game of badminton over at some yahoo's Vermont cottage, and a cool, wet, slightly dangerous kayak trip down an unforgiving river. Otherwise, how would you know that you have lived your summertime best? What is you missed out on some morsel of shaded nirvana?”

“I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring to put down in a more or less straightforward journalistic style something about my experiences with addiction and addicts.”

Writing Seems Motivation Strong Five Style Addiction Thirty Addict Straightforward Journalistic

Author:William S. Burroughs

“I had never seen the jungle. They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera - the Panther - and no man's plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away; and because I had learned the ways of men, I became more terrible in the jungle than Shere Khan.”

Men Way Night Felt Behinds Terrible Blow Silly Bars Broke Iron Feds Locks Jungle One Night Paws Panthers

Book:The Jungle Book & The Second Jungle Book (Complete Edition with the Original Illustrations by John Lockwood Kipling): Classic of children's literature from one of the most popular writers in England, known for Kim, Just So Stories, Captain Courageous, Stalky & Co, Plain Tales from the Hills, Soldier’s Three

Source: The Jungle Book & The Second Jungle Book (Complete Edition with the Original Illustrations by John Lockwood Kipling): Classic of children's literature from one of the most popular writers in England, known for Kim, Just So Stories, Captain Courageous, Stalky & Co, Plain Tales from the Hills, Soldier’s Three

“Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown.”

Happens Brown Goth Steampunk

Author:Charles Stross

“I have really good instincts about friends.”

Instinct

Author:Nicole Richie

“Ransom thought her girly tendencies the funniest thing ever, constantly teased her over them, but the last time he'd opened his big mouth, she'd gotten her own back by pointing out that his long black hair sure did look well conditioned.”

Wells Looks Long Bigs Lasts Black Hair Mouths Tendencies Last Time Pointing Girly Ransom Black Hair Long Black Hair

Author:Nalini Singh

“I'm the best," Elena muttered to herself the next morning s she got out of the taxi in front of the magnificient creation that was Archangel Tower. "Hey, lady, you gonna pay me or just talk to yourself?" "What? Oh.... Keep the change." ... "...you got a big hunt coming on?" Elena didn't ask how he'd pegged her for a hunter. "No. But I do have a high chance of meeting a horrible death within the next few hours. Might as well do something good as up my shot at getting into heaven.”