"I want to do it too!" (sitting motionless)Nudge: "Nope, you stand out like a fart in a church."Max: (muttering) "Appropriately enough."Iggy: "What about me?" (stands still)Max: "No, you're visible."Iggy: "Am not!"Max: (throws a pinecone at him) "Could I do that if I wouldn't see you?"

"I'm glad I'm feeling this way. I'm really glad."Dr. Keyes looked rather dismayed. "Really, sweetheart?""Yes. And I don't want to let it go. Not yet. I'm just starting to feel it. And it feels...I don't know. Right, I guess. Maybe even...good."

"I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much."

"I feel like, like pudding," Iggy groaned. "Pudding with nerve endings. Pudding in great pain."

"Other than my hundreds of arrests I really don't have that much experience with the law. While the majority of people aren't corrupt, there certainly is an awful lot of corruption in this country."

"Seize what's been handed you. Make smart decisions. Make decisions because life is a temporary situation."

"I made a pleasant discovery. You work hard at something eight hours a day, you get better. Not a lot better necessarily, but a little better, and that's just fine, because improving at golf, or anything else probably, is just a matter of making an endless series of tiny improvements."

"They call me, The Sharkalator."

"I don't care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together."

"Memory is all I have now."

"The idea for Maximum Ride come from the earlier books of mine called When the Wind Blows and The Lake House, which also feature a character named Max who escapes from a quiet despicable school. Most of the similarities end there. Max and the other kids in Maximum Ride are not the same Max and kids featured in those two books. nor do Frannie and Kit play any part in Maximum Ride. I hope you enjoy the ride anyways."

"At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall."

"Behind every successful woman, there's a big prick."

"Some kids get called 'bundles of joy' or 'slices of heaven' or 'dreams come true.' We got 'the fifty-fourth generation of DNA experiments.' Doesn't have the same warm and fuzzy feel. But maybe I'm oversensitive."

"You mean other than the wings? I once ate nine snicker bars in a row without barfing. It was a record."

"This time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice."

"Love means never having to be apart."

"Our parents were a test tube and a turkey baster."

"A fight with her mother? It was certainly within the realm of possibility, I guessed. Elizabeth was a teenager and her mother was ... well, her mother. Normally they were the best of friends, but even best friends fight."

"A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night."

"Regret is a waste of time."

"I'm not comfortable in this stadium, I explained, trying to look calm."I know. And you hate Fang looking at those girls. But we're still havingfun, and Fang still loves you, and you'll still save the world. Okay?"

"Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's what they tell us in school and in the New York Times Review. In fact, it's a good thing that stories are as different as we are, one from another."

"You're a brave, brave girl, Tula" Gaby told her."I know", said the little girl. "I got it from you."

"Max, you're acting like a child, the Voice said. You're above rebelling against your fate just to rebel. You've got a date with destiny. Don't be late."I brushed some hair out of my eyes. Is that a movie quote? Or is it an actual date? I don't remember destiny asking me. I never even gave destiny my phone number."

"For many years I had heard about an underworld consisting of people who act out a vampire fantasy while I was living in New York. Fortunately for me there are also several books on the phenomena."

"The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective."

"I didn't know a van could go up on two wheels like that, for so long."

"Ari smiled. The sun was shining, the weather was great, he was eating ice cream, and all his dreams were about to come true."

"A classroom . People trying to stick me in classrooms was becoming as predictable and annoying as people trying to kill me, but with less-fun results."

"Because today after all, is all we knew."

"AS WE LAY THERE WE FELT LIKE WE WERE EXTENSTIONS OF EACH OTHER, LIKE OUR BODIES AND OUR HEARTS HAD TO BE TOGETHER TO MAKE ONE WHOLE PERFECT PERSON."

"Good memories are like charms...Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet."

"I'm big on having a blistering pace. That's one of the hallmarks of what I do, and that's not easy. I never blow up cars and things like that, so it's something else that keeps the suspense flowing. I try not to write a chapter that isn't going to turn on the movie projector in your head."

"NOOOO!" On the screen, a woman's eyes bugged almost out of her head, and I tried not to scream.Tried not to scream in exasperation, I mean. The serial killer was right in front of her, wide open! Clearly, instead of weeping like a moron, she could be lunging forward and administering a swift uppercut to the chin. Then this entire pointless ordeal would be over with, and I could go home."

"Hello, Max," he said quietly, searching my face. "How do you feel?"Which was a ten on the "imbecilic question" scale of one to ten. Why, I feel fine, Jeb," I said brightly. "How about you?"Any nausea? Headache?" Yep. And it's standing here talking to me."

"He could totally be your boyfriend," [Angel] went on with annoying persistance. "You guys could get married. I could be like a junior bridesmaid. Total could be your flower dog.""I'm only a kid!" I shrieked. "I can't get married!""You could in New Hampshire.""

"Write the story. Don't write sentences."

"If you're going to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now...Things are almost never as bad as they first seem. Loosen up, girlfriend... you could giggle more in real life."

"Instinctively I started to panic when Dr. Martinez strapped my arm down, andthen the panic just melted away, la la la.Someone took my other hand. Fang. I felt his calluses, his bones, hisstrength."I'm so glad you're here, I slurred, smiling dopily up at him. I took inhis startled, worried expression but dismissed it. "I know everything's fineif you're here.I thought I saw his cheeks flush, but I wasn't too sure of anything anymore."

"Happy all life for ever."

"Denial is not just a river in Egypt."

"People want us, or want us dead, because of what we are, not who we are. It's hard."

"There's always be a me and you."

"Because now, the magic is everywhere."

"Isn't it lucky?"

"I want to do it too! said Gazzy, sitting very, very quietly, completely motionless."Nope, said Nudge, shaking her head. "You stand out like a fart in church."

"We're famous" iggy whispered so low that Fang could barely hear him."So's Swine Flu" Fang whispered back."

"I hate you! I screamed at Fang. Tucking my wings in, I aimed downward,diving toward the ground at more than two hundred miles an hour."No you dooonnn't! Fang's voice spiraled away into nothingness, far aboveme.Inside my head, almost drowned out by the roar of wind rushing by my ears, Iheard the Voice make a tsking sound. You guys are crazy about each other, itsaid."

"And Flock Rule Number Two is, Don't argue with Max or you'll live to regret it." I spun and stomped out to the clearing, turning back for one last jab at Dylan. "And by the way, you clearly DON'T know me better than Fang does. Do you see Fang arguing with me? No, you do not."Fang rolled his eyes."