Pseudonymous Bosch is the pen name of Raphael Simon, the author of The Secret Series and The Bad Books series of fictional children's books. He has released 9 books.
Why did so many grown-ups want to be young, she wondered, when it took so long to grow old? It was like going on a million-mile road trip then wanting to turn around without getting out of the car.
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Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems. Books can, for example, give you ideas. I don't know if you've ever had an idea before, but, if you have, you know how much trouble an idea can get you into.
Q: Why do you like chocolate so much? A: The answer, clearly, is because I've tasted chocolate.
Please be SILENT and LISTEN. I am the SCHOOLMASTER and you are in the CLASSROOM. Just like ELEVEN PLUS TWO equals TWELVE PLUS ONE, And even a FUNERAL can be REAL FUN, You will find my DICTIONARY is quite INDICATORY. If you want to read my story, just look. . . THEN UNREAD.
You know, people always warn children about taking candy from strange adults. But they never warn us adults about taking candy from strange children.
Death is like an old dog. He always knows when you are at his door.
Friends don't have to have a lot of things in common. But there's one thing friends usually do have in common - a sense of humor. That doesn't mean they find all the same things funny. Sometimes, they might even laugh at each other. But at the end of the day, friends can always laugh with each other.
Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else.
Better to cry wolf over and over than never to cry wolf at all.
The name of this book is mysterious.
Very little in this world makes sense.
Your problem, it is not here' - he pointed the pen at Max-Ernest's throat - 'it is here' - he pointed the pen at Max-Ernest's chest. 'My heart is heavy, too. But you must be strong. This situation, it is very serious. It is not only Cass's life that is at stake. If she dies, the Secret, it will die too.
If I do find out the Secret,I won't be able to tell it to you-you know that right?And that doesn't mean I don't trust you. It's just because I can't. Sometimes even best friends have to keep secrets from each other. " -Cass
. . . books were better than travel.
Some secrets are meant to be known- but once known you can never forget them.
But remember what I said about forgetting what I said?
Not all novelists are power-hungry madman. Some are power-hungry madwomen.
But there were other, vaguer, harder-to-pin-down feelings, like: a pit in the stomach that means something is either really good or really bad or both. A feeling of being old and young at once. A sense of beginnings and endings happening at the same time. A certainty that your life is changing, but an uncertainty about how it's changing and whether you want it to.
Whether it’s chocolate or socks, the rule is the same; the darker the better.