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If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.

— Lemony Snicket
Humor

Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or something -Shane

— Rachel Caine
Humor

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

— Mark Twain
Humor Philosophy Faith & Religion

Can you be a girl for a few seconds?""I'm always a girl" I frown."You know what I mean. Like a silly, annoying girl"I twirl my hair around my finger. "Kay.

— Veronica Roth
Humor

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

— Woody Allen
Life Humor Art & Beauty

It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.

— Suzanne Collins
Humor

But-" Maia, still looking at Alec and Magnus, broke off and rasied her eyebrows. Simon turned to see what she was looking at - and stared.Alec had his arms around Magnus and was kissing him full on the mouth. Magnus, who appeared to be in a state of shock, stood frozen. Several groups of people - Shadowhunters and Downworlders alike - were staring and whispering. Glancing to the side, Simon saw the Lightwoods, their eyes widen, gaping at the display. Maryse had her hand over her mouth.Maia looked perplexed. "Wait a second," she said. "Do we all have to do that, too?

— Cassandra Clare
Humor

People, generally, suck.

— Christopher Moore
Humor

We need to talk. All of us About what we're going to do now.""I was going to watch Project Runway.

— Cassandra Clare
Humor

Sebastian just smiled. “I could hear your heart beating,� he said softly. “When you were watching me with Valentine. Did it bother you?�“That you seem to be dating my dad?� Jace shrugged. "You’re a little young for him, to be honest.�“What?� For the first time since Jace had met him, Sebastian seemed flabbergasted.

— Cassandra Clare
Humor

I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist

— Gena Showalter
Humor

Moths," repeats Will. "You're afraid of moths?" "Not just a cloud of moths," she says, "like...a swarm of them. Everywhere. All those wings and legs and..." She shudders and shakes her head."Terrifying," Will says with mock seriousness. "That's my girl. Tough as cotton balls.""Oh, Shut up.

— Veronica Roth
Humor

Can you surf really well, then?"I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh."Jeez, Nico," I said. "I've never really tried."He went on asking questions. Did I fight a lot with Thalia, since she was a daughter of Zeus? (I didn't answer that one.) If Annabeth's mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn't Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff? (I tried not to strangle Nico for asking that one.) Was Annabeth my girlfriend? (At this point, I was ready to stick the kid in a meat-flavored sack and throw him to the wolves.)

— Rick Riordan
Humor

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

— Pat Monahan
Humor

You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.

— Rick Riordan
Humor

World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.