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“When it’s true love you know why you’re getting stabbed.”
― Richard Kadrey

“The captain’s shrug was eloquent, and left nothing more to say.”
― James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn

“When you live with a dead man’s head that won’t shut up and smokes all your cigarettes, the only way to deal with the awfulness is to make it so unbelievably awful that it becomes kind of weirdly beautiful. Like an exploding giraffe full of fireworks.”
― Richard Kadrey

“Words are weapons. They blast big bloody holes in the world. And words are bricks. Say something out loud and it starts turning solid. Say it out loud enough and it becomes a wall you can’t get through.”
― Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“What sort of exploring?” Shielding his eyes, Adam lifted his eyes to the sky. He thought he could hear Gansey coming. “Mountains. How do you feel about helicopters?” There was a long pause. “How do you mean? Ethically?”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, that strange happiness that was sometimes so big that it felt like sadness. It was the way she felt when she looked at the stars.”
― Maggie Stiefvater

“That beast inside you, the one you think is tethered tightly to the post, the one you’ve tamed with art, love, prayer, meditation: it’s barely muzzled. The knot is weak. The post is brittle. All it takes is two words and a siren to cut it loose.”
― Adrian J. Walker, The End of the World Running Club

“My job - the thing I spent a third of my life doing so that I could live the other two-thirds regretting it in relative comfort - existed purely because other jobs that didn’t need to exist existed. If there was ever a sign that there were too many people in the world, it was my job.”
― Adrian J. Walker, The End of the World Running Club

“How we gentle our losses into paler ghosts.”
― Peter Heller, The Dog Stars

“There’s a dignity in consequences.”
― James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes

“There are no souls, Melba thought with a touch of pity. We are bags of meat with a little electricity running through them. No ghosts, no spirits, no souls. The only thing that survives is the story people tell about you.”
― James S.A. Corey, Abaddon's Gate

“It doesn't matter if you and everyone else in the room are thinking it. You don't say the words. Words are weapons. They blast big bloody holes in the world. And words are bricks. Say something out loud and it starts turning solid. Say it loud enough and it becomes a wall you can't get through.”
― Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead