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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #2
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #3
    Emily Post
    “Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.”
    Emily Post

  • #4
    Tamora Pierce
    “Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.”
    Tamora Pierce, Melting Stones

  • #5
    Tamora Pierce
    “You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him."
    "So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.”
    Tamora Pierce, In the Hand of the Goddess

  • #6
    Tamora Pierce
    “Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.”
    Tamora Pierce, Emperor Mage

  • #7
    Tamora Pierce
    “Tris: "I was reading."
    Sandry: "You're always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt."
    Tris: "Then maybe they shouldn't talk to me.”
    Tamora Pierce, Briar's Book

  • #8
    Tamora Pierce
    “Girls are 50% of the population. We deserve to represent 50% of the heroes.”
    Tamora Pierce

  • #9
    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
    Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral's Kiss

  • #10
    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.”
    Laurell K. Hamilton

  • #11
    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.”
    Laurell K. Hamilton, A Stroke of Midnight

  • #12
    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.”
    Laurell K. Hamilton, The Laughing Corpse

  • #13
    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “His eyes widened just a bit, his lips flexed. I realized he was trying not to laugh. I hate it when people find my threats amusing.”
    Laurell K. Hamilton, The Laughing Corpse

  • #14
    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “Put any woman in an area run mostly by men and rumors will fly. Unless you make it very clear that you are off limits, there is also a certain competitiveness that sets in. Some men are either trying to run you out of town or get into your pants. They don't seem to know any other way to deal with a woman. If you're not a sexual object, you're a threat.”
    Laurell K. Hamilton, Obsidian Butterfly

  • #15
    Nalini Singh
    “Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.”
    Nalini Singh, Archangel's Kiss

  • #16
    Nalini Singh
    “Oh my God! I'm crushing an angel. Let me up!”
    Nalini Singh, Angels' Blood

  • #17
    Martha Wells
    “There needs to be an error code that means “I received your request but decided to ignore you.”
    Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol

  • #18
    Martha Wells
    “Yes, talk to Murderbot about its feelings. The idea was so painful I dropped to 97 percent efficiency. I’d rather climb back into Hostile One’s mouth.”
    Martha Wells, All Systems Red

  • #19
    Martha Wells
    “Just remember you’re not alone here.” I never know what to say to that. I am actually alone in my head, and that’s where 90 plus percent of my problems are.”
    Martha Wells, Network Effect

  • #20
    Martha Wells
    “And in their corner all they had was Murderbot, who just wanted everyone to shut up and leave it alone so it could watch the entertainment feed all day.”
    Martha Wells, All Systems Red

  • #21
    Martha Wells
    “I said, "Sometimes people do things to you that you can't do anything about. You just have to survive it and go on.”
    Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

  • #22
    Martha Wells
    “Gurathin turned to me. "So you don't have a governor module, but we could punish you by looking at you."

    I looked at him. "Probably, right up until I remember I have guns built into my arms.”
    Martha Wells, All Systems Red

  • #23
    Martha Wells
    “ART said, "I want an apology."
    I made an obscene gesture at the ceiling with both hands. (I know ART isn't the ceiling but the humans kept looking up there like it was.)
    ART said, "That was unnecessary."
    In a low voice, Ratthi commented to Overse, "Anyone who thinks machine intelligences don't have emotions needs to be in this very uncomfortable room right now.”
    Martha Wells, Network Effect

  • #24
    Martha Wells
    “Possibly I was overthinking this. I do that; it’s the anxiety that comes with being a part-organic murderbot. The upside was paranoid attention to detail. The downside was also paranoid attention to detail.”
    Martha Wells, Exit Strategy

  • #25
    Martha Wells
    “So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.”
    Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

  • #26
    Martha Wells
    “I wanted to just sink into my media downloads for a while and pretend I didn't exist.”
    Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

  • #27
    Martha Wells
    “No hugging,” I warned her. It was in our contract.”
    Martha Wells, Network Effect

  • #28
    Martha Wells
    “Disinformation, which is the same as lying but for some reason has a different name, is the top tactic in corporate negotiation/warfare.”
    Martha Wells, Exit Strategy

  • #29
    Martha Wells
    “There is a lot about what is going on here that I don’t understand. But I am participating anyway.”
    Martha Wells, Network Effect

  • #30
    Martha Wells
    “I don’t know why, because it’s one of those things I’m not contractually obligated to care about.”
    Martha Wells, All Systems Red



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