Alonso Mitza > Alonso's Quotes

“You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way.

- Breeze”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“Would you believe it's harder to find a virgin than a unicorn in New York?”
― Naomi Novik, Zombies Vs. Unicorns

“Holly: Seriously, you don't like unicorns? What kind person doesn't like unicorns?

Justine: What kind of a person doesn't like zombies? What have zombies ever done to you?

Holly: Zombies shamble. I disapprove of shambling. And they have bits that fall off. You never see a unicorn behaving that way.

Justine: I shamble. Bits fall off me all the time: hair, skin cells. Are you saying you disapprove of me?”
― Holly Black, Zombies Vs. Unicorns

“Zombies are the proletariat. Long live the workers!”
― Justine Larbalestier, Zombies Vs. Unicorns

“It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.”
― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

“Want a balloon?”
― Stephen King, It

“Definitely not—you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us sick.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up all around them and in between the hills there was a wide expanse of black bog.
Stephen had never seen a landscape so calculated to reduce the onlooker to utter despair in an instant. "This is one of your kingdoms, I suppose, sir?" he said. "My kingdoms?" exclaimed the gentleman in surprize. "Oh, no! This is Scotland!”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“It is curious and we magicians collect curiosities, you know.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”
― Stephen King

“The basis of all human fears, he thought. A closed door, slightly ajar.”
― Stephen King, 'Salem's Lot

“A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.”
― Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves

“If something got you to turn off T.V. , it's a total success”
― Stephen King, Everything's Eventual

“Time belongs to the Tower.”
― Stephen King, Everything's Eventual

“Eanna love us, Adaon preserve us, Morian guard our souls.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana

“No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.”
― Stephen King, It

“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

“The trick is not to satisfy everyone, but to leave everyone feeling they reached the best possible result.”
― Robert Jordan, Towers of Midnight

“Knock a man down, and you saw what he was made of. That man might run. If he didn’t—if he stood back up with blood at the corner of his mouth and determination in his eyes—then you knew. That man was about to become truly dangerous.”
― Robert Jordan, A Memory of Light

“If I am to be judged by those who come after me, let me be judged for the truth.”
― Margaret Weis, The Soulforge

“management hints that the person guilty of committing the error will be punished. They then create more processes and approvals to prevent the error from happening again.”
― Gene Kim, The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations

“The monster nevers dies.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“Your grasp of the language is startling,” Wax said, “considering how you so frequently brutalize it.” “Ain’t nobody what knows the cow better than the butcher, Wax.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Shadows of Self

“He’d always found it odd that so many died when they were old, as logic said that was the point in their lives when they’d had the most practice not dying. He”
― Brandon Sanderson, Shadows of Self

“Humans were built to look back; that's why we have that swivel joint in our necks”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“There's a door."
"Where does it go?"
"It stays where it is, I think.”
― Terry Pratchett, Eric

“The dinosaurs never discovered what caused their extinction, either.”
― John Joseph Adams, Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse

“Screw the end of the world. The world doesn't end. Humans aren't the kind of things that have endings.”
― John Joseph Adams, Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse

“it is only the unthinking mind that finds anything unthinkable. To use the word is just to show your membership card in the society of morons.”
― Philip Wylie, The Disappearance

“Imagination without logic is worthless. It conceives uncritically; pursued for its own sake, it but deforms the mind. Logic by itself is only futile; without imagination it can only reprove the proven and so discover nothing.”
― Philip Wylie, The Disappearance