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And isn't that what all boys want and all men, too? Just to be taken seriously?

Is it ... dead?" asked Tom, his voice all quivery with fright.
"A town just ran over him," said Hester. "I shouldn't think he's very well ...

Uncle knows best.
-All the Lost Boys

The one thing worse than an enemy is a friend turned false.

I felt a little like saying 'Eeeeeeeeek!' myself, but seeing Myrtle so afraid reminded me that I was British, and must be brave.

These are new worlds, Zen. We don't have to be what we were any more. We can be anything that we want. We can be humans together. - Nova

Its a town eat town world

I am forever being captured these days. It isn't like me at all. You must think me such a silly princess.

I hate you! I hate you!" Hester was yelling
"Well I care about you, whether you like it or not!" Tom screamed.

Then, beaming at Tom and Caul, he topped up their glasses with more wine to wash down the pack of half-truths and outright lies he'd fed them

Nova shrugged, looking as if she had personally invented shrugging and hadn't quite sorted out the fine details yet.

Nobody wants trouble,' said Chandni. 'Trouble just find us.

I had no idea I'd end up writing four books when I completed 'Mortal Engines.' I didn't even think it would find a publisher.

Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.

And now he was dead, his soul fled down to the Sunless Country and his body lying cold in the cold mud, somewhere in the city's wake.

He cut through the 21st Century Gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal headed gods of lost America

I don't travel much; I just stay at home and imagine weird places.

I'm already a monster!" she shrieked.
"No, you're not!" Tom managed to heave himself to his knees. "You're my friend!" he shouted.

The old curator of ceramics lay near the door, looking indignant, as if death was a silly modern fad that he rather disapproved of.

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

They're Hive Monks,' said Nova.

ran on blindly into the blind dark.

He said his name was Kobi Chen-Tulsi. He said, "Tell Threnody Noon that the Prells are going to attack Grand Central." - The Crystal Horizon

Friends don't leave friends behind to wash dishes for yetis!

Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night.

But boys will be boys, even the ones who are only girls dressed up: That's one of the rules of the world.

That's impossible,' said Fever, Engineerishly.

I was fascinated by 'The Lord of the Rings' from about the age of eight, and that lasted well into my teens.

I have had it with these dumb cakes on this dumb spaceship!

Outside, Melliphant's ear flattened itself against the wood of the door like a pale slug.

You can't keep children in the nursery forever. If you do, they never become grown-ups, but they're not really children either. They are just pets.

It will be all right, Tom. Wherever we go now, whatever becomes of us, we'll be together, and it will all be all right.

An Engineer is no match for a Historian with his dander up!

It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.

Uncle knows best.

All it wants is to explode.'
'Nice to have an ambition in life, I suppose.