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  • #1
    Jim  Butcher
    “We are not going to die."

    Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?"

    "No. And do you know why?" He shook his head. "Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die." I hauled on the shirt even harder. "And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.”
    Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

  • #2
    Jim  Butcher
    “Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.”
    Jim Butcher, Vignette

  • #3
    Jim  Butcher
    “So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying?”
    Jim Butcher, Death Masks

  • #4
    Jim  Butcher
    “I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.”
    Jim Butcher, Storm Front

  • #5
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #6
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #8
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #9
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

  • #10
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #11
    Jim Henson
    “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
    Jim Henson

  • #12
    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
    Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

  • #13
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #14
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #15
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #16
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #18
    Mark Twain
    “When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.”
    Mark Twain

  • #19
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

  • #20
    Bill Watterson
    “Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!”
    Bill Watterson

  • #21
    Bill Willingham
    “I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?”
    Bill Willingham

  • #22
    Warren Ellis
    “Did you ever want to set someone's head on fire, just to see what it looked like? Did you ever stand in the street and think to yourself, I could make that nun go blind just by giving her a kiss? Did you ever lay out plans for stitching babies and stray cats into a Perfect New Human? Did you ever stand naked surrounded by people who want your gleaming sperm, squirting frankincense, soma and testosterone from every pore? If so, then you're the bastard who stole my drugs Friday night. And I'll find you. Oh, yes.”
    Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 5: Lonely City

  • #23
    Mark Waid
    “Socrates should have written comics.”
    Mark Waid

  • #24
    “All those years I thought that it was power that brought responsibility. It's not. I was wrong.

    It's responsibility that brings power. It's knowing what needs to be done that brings strength. And courage.”
    Peter Parker Spiderman

  • #25
    Grant Morrison
    “It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?”
    Grant Morrison, Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth

  • #26
    Mark Waid
    “Does Batman ever NOT have a plan...?”
    Mark Waid, Kingdom Come #2: Truth and Justice

  • #27
    “I leave the world in terrible turmoil. I come back, same turmoil. Nothing at all different. Well, outfits are a little different...”
    Joss Whedon, Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 1: Gifted

  • #28
    Neil Gaiman
    “You don't get heaven or hell. Do you know the only reward you get for being Batman? You get to be Batman.”
    Neil Gaiman, Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?

  • #29
    Frank Miller
    “A gun is a liar's weapon”
    Frank Miller

  • #30
    Frank Miller
    “Ladies. Gentlemen. You have eaten well. You've eaten Gotham's wealth. Its spirit. Your feast is nearly over. From this moment on...none of you are safe.”
    Frank Miller, Batman: Year One



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