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    Douglas Adams
    “A cup of tea would restore my normality."

    [Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Screenplay]”
    ― Douglas Adams
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    Rick Riordan
    “With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian
    tags: nico
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    Pseudonymous Bosch
    “Q: Why do you like chocolate so much?

    A: The answer, clearly, is because I've tasted chocolate.”
    ― Pseudonymous Bosch
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    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
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Tomi Adeyemi
    “I’m the very monster I hunt.”
    ― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone
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    “Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?”
    ― Garth Nix, Sabriel
    tags: destiny, path, questioning
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    Pseudonymous Bosch
    “Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.”
    ― Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret
    tags: book, books, harm, problems, read, reading
    625 likes

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    Andy Weir
    “Five a.m. was a largely theoretical concept to me. I knew it existed, but I rarely observed it.”
    ― Andy Weir, Artemis
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    Rick Riordan
    “I believed everyone should have the right to ruin their own life without anyone else ruining it for them.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods
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    Jay Kristoff
    “A life without books is a life not lived.”
    ― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire
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    Rosamund Hodge
    “Don’t look at the shadows too long or a demon might look back.”
    ― Rosamund Hodge , Cruel Beauty
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    Douglas Adams
    “Reality is frequently inaccurate.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: reality
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    Christopher Paolini
    “Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”
    ― Christopher Paolini, Eragon
    tags: books, christopher-paolini, eragon, good-reads
    6286 likes

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    Rick Riordan
    “Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: deadlines, humor, procrastinate
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    Eoin Colfer
    “Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
    tags: confidence, humor, ignorance, knowledge
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    Sabaa Tahir
    “The best lies come from the truth.”
    ― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes
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    Ben Aaronovitch
    “Questions would be asked. Answers would be ignored.”
    ― Ben Aaronovitch, Midnight Riot
    tags: procedure
    71 likes

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    R.F. Kuang
    “Supernatural is a word for anything that doesn't fit your present understanding of the world.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War
    tags: supernatural, understanding
    84 likes

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    Douglas Adams
    “I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: happiness, rightness
    2406 likes

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    Tomi Adeyemi
    “They don't hate you, my child. They hate what you were meant to become.”
    ― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone
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    Rick Riordan
    “I come preloaded with sarcasm.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods
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    Pseudonymous Bosch
    “Only bad books have good endings.
    If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.”
    ― Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret
    tags: books
    1177 likes

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    Douglas Adams
    “To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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    Patrick Ness
    “If you're too specific, people will purposely mishear you so they can be outraged about whatever thing that usually outrages them.”
    ― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here
    tags: rethoric, speech
    36 likes

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    Christopher Paolini
    “People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.”
    ― Christopher Paolini, Eragon
    tags: history, humor, memory, recall
    2008 likes

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    Andy Weir
    “A clumsy, awkward success is still a success.”
    ― Andy Weir, Artemis
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: dreams, life
    48240 likes

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    Douglas Adams
    “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
    ― Douglas Adams
    tags: attributed-no-source, humor, misattributed-douglas-adams, wit
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    Jay Kristoff
    “Ask me not if God exists, but why he's such a prick.”
    ― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire
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    Julie C. Dao
    “Love is weakness. You open yourself up to choices you’d never make if you heart were your own.”
    ― Julie C. Dao, Forest of a Thousand Lanterns
    tags: heart, love
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