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“Fresh ideas are easier to retain with fresh air.”
― Chris Colfer, A Tale of Magic

“I figure when you come to a crossroads, you have a choice: right turn, left turn, straight ahead. Or you can just pull over to the side of the road and call it quits. But if you've got a good stretch of road up ahead and someone fun to travel it with, why stay stuck in the galdern ditch?”
― Chris Grabenstein

“Curses and foul language!”
― Chris Grabenstein, The Island of Dr. Libris

“every woman’s mind is her kingdom. Rule it wisely, lassie.”
― Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

“Because, like Sherlock says to Dr. Watson, ‘it is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.”
― Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

“Chiltington was a snake. Worse. A garden slug. Maybe a leech. Something oily and slimy that left a greasy trail and liked to mooch off other people’s ideas.”
― Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

“We all make mistakes. That's why my pencil has an eraser.”
― Chris Grabenstein, Tilt-a-Whirl

“A library doesn’t need windows, Andrew. We have books, which are windows into worlds we never even dreamed possible.”
― Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

“Books need to have their spines cracked, their covers opened, and their pages ruffled for them to come alive.”
― Chris Grabenstein, Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics

“Some people refuse to accept the limits given to them by others.”
― Chris Grabenstein, The Island of Dr. Libris

“Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our minds. They require us to think.”
― Oliver Van DeMille, A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-First Century

“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
― Heather Vogel Frederick, Wish You Were Eyre