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“I wanted to say something brilliant. My God, Holmes, how did you know the zombie was hiding in the flower pot? But I couldn't lie.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, The Laughing Corpse

“When she shall die, take her, and cut her in little stars, and she will make the face of heaven so fine, that the world will be in love with night, and pay no worship to the garish sun”
― Shakespeare

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
― Maya Angelou

“Elend smiled. "Oh, come on. You have to admit that you're unusual, Vin. You're like some strange mixture of a noblewoman, a street urchin, and a cat. Plus, you've mangaged - in our short three years together - to kill not only my god, but my father, my brother, and my fiancée. That's kind of like a homicidal hat trick.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“No mating,” Pattern buzzed softly on the wall.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“Gay people are born into, and belong to, every society in the world. They are all ages, all races, all faiths. They are doctors and teachers, farmers and bankers, soldiers and athletes. And whether we know it or whether we acknowledge it, they are our family, our friends, and our neighbors. Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality.”
― Hilary Clinton

“Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“war is like a dress in a department store. It may look tempting on the rack but once you've got it on it's nothing but a mess”
― Valente, Catherynne

“Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

“Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.”
― Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“I could have become a mass murderer after I hacked my governor module, but then I realized I could access the combined feed of entertainment channels carried on the company satellites. It had been well over 35,000 hours or so since then, with still not much murdering, but probably, I don't know, a little under 35,000 hours of movies, serials, books, plays, and music consumed. As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure.”
― Martha Wells, All Systems Red

“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”
― Anne Herbert

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Do well. Act with honour and dignity. Not because there is some promised reward, but because it is the only way to live. And that is as true for my kind as for yours.”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“The essence of warfare is to force the pace and hope your enemy makes a mistake.”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“Never make a plan more complicated than your ability to communicate it.”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy and not being afraid to demonstrate that affection. It means never having to play it cool about how much you like something. It’s basically a license to proudly emote on a somewhat childish level rather than behave like a supposed adult. Being a geek is extremely liberating.”
― Simon Pegg

“I’m no cactus expert, but I know a prick when I see one.”
― Mark A. Cooper, Royal Decree

“so whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.”
― Gloria Steinem

“What's it going to take for you to open that door? Gold? Blood?"

"Your name and password."

"My name is Honorous Jorg Ancrath, my password is divine right. Now open the fecking door.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Our doubts are traitors,
and make us lose the good we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt.”
― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure