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“Women who did what they liked instead of what other people wished were often accused of witchcraft, because only a witch would be so defiant, or so it was thought.”
― Christina Henry, The Mermaid

“I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.”
― Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
― J.K. Rowling

“There was comfort in ignorance, in thinking the world a certain way and not knowing any different.”
― Christina Henry, Alice

“You are only a prisoner when you surrender.”
― Tad Williams, Shadowplay

“Think about it if you must, but remember: If something is worth pursuing, you shouldn’t waste time. Situations change faster than you can split an orcish skull, and a moment’s hesitation could cost you your chance.”
― Markus Heitz, The Dwarves

“You’re only a mouse if you let them make you one.”
― Christina Henry, Alice

“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.”
― Bertold Brecht

“Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?”
― Garth Nix, Sabriel

“The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.”
― Bertolt Brecht, Life of Galileo

“We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.”
― Tad Williams

“Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?”
― Clarice Lispector, A Hora da Estrela

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“If you let the grief in, it might consume you.”
― Christina Henry, Alice

“Art is not a mirror held up to reality
but a hammer with which to shape it.”
― Bertolt Brecht

“...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce.”
― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“That was the trouble with not being right in the head. You couldn’t always tell if your eyes were telling the truth.”
― Christina Henry, Alice

“We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“There is no such thing as an accident. That's what science is all about. (...) There are only patterns we don't yet recognize.”
― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow

“Was this, I wondered, what it felt like to be a grown-up? Did you always feel the weight of things on you, your cares pressing you down like a burden you could never shake? No wonder Peter could fly. He had no worries to weight him to the earth.”
― Christina Henry, Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

“the road to Heaven is paved with bullshit and busy work.”
― Tad Williams, The Dirty Streets of Heaven

“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.”
― Steve Jobs

“Computer machen keine Fehler, aber es ist nun einmal die Natur der Menschen, Fehler zu machen und daraus zu lernen. Nimm ihnen dieses Recht und du nimmst ihnen ihre Menschlichkeit”
― Wolfgang Hohlbein, Das Buch

“Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.”
― Bertolt Brecht

“Remember that each light between sunrise and sunset is worth dying for at least once.”
― Tad Williams, Shadowrise

“The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.”
― Bertolt Brecht

“Ich finde es einen wunderschönen Gedanken, dass etwas, das ein Mensch vor über hundert Jahren niedergeschrieben hat, noch immer da ist. Der Mensch selbst ist schon lange verschwunden, und vielleicht sogar schon vergessen, aber seine Gedanken sind immer noch da. Bücher sind Boten aus der Vergangenheit, weißt du? Botschaften aus der Vergangenheit für die Menschen der Zukunft. Wie kleine Zeitmaschinen.”
― Wolfgang Hohlbein, Das Buch

“Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes”
― Bertolt Brecht, Galileo