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“Goddammit Donut!”
― Matt Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl

“And so, in the absence of any abiding religious convictions, this was the one blind faith I had: that love was a physical force, and it was never wasted. Once it was called out into the universe, it would echo back to us forever.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“I love you, I have loved you, and I will love you.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“If a hero is someone who will give up love to save the world, then a villain is the reverse. Someone who will give up the world to save love.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“Translation in a colonized state is an act of violence”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“Life gives us grief like mounds of wet clay,
Ripe and heavy beneath our reluctant hands,
And with it we can do one of three things.

We can carry it with us whenever we go,
Stooped beneath its awful weight,
We can shove it to the back of a wardrobe,
Buried beneath an old waxed coat,
Or we can make something beautiful,
And let it live on beyond us.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“If people are songs
Written in the major or the minor key,
Then you, my dear, are major.

A climb, a crescendo, a thousand trumpets.
A clashing of cymbals, joy and awe,
Rousing, reaching, always to the stars.

And I am but a dirge, a requiem, a lamentation,
A melancholic harp in D minor,
Forever wondering why you chose me.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“My name is Valen Ferus, the Night Prince of Etta! And you, false king, you are in my seat.”
― L.J. Andrews, Court of Ice and Ash

“And I have mighty plans to continue irritating our dear prince by insisting you take vows with me and not him.”
― L.J. Andrews, Court of Ice and Ash

“They were working even when they weren't working-fueling each other's creativity and inventiveness with a new point of view-and while the scientific community would later marvel at their productivity, they probably would have marveled even more had they realized most of it was done naked.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“When it came to Elizabeth Zott, he [Six-Thirty, the dog] was on high alert. She’d suffered in her past—he could sense it—and he was determined she should never suffer again. It was the same for Elizabeth. She sensed that Six-Thirty had also suffered beyond the usual dog-left-by-the-roadside neglect, and she, too, felt the need to protect him.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“Acker doesn’t let go of me. Not in the center of the storm and not when we breach the veil of the storm’s eye. Not when the boat feels like it’s going to be ripped apart at any moment and we’re going to go overboard. He never lessens his hold, not even when his arms shake. He never lets go.”
― Rachel Schneider, Metal Slinger

“Acker smiles, but it’s straight filth when he says, “Shame. I was kind of looking forward to tying you up.”
― Rachel Schneider, Metal Slinger

“I’m never going to tell you something just to benefit myself.”
“ Not even if it means saving your life?” I ask, stunned. He shakes his head again.
“No.”
― Rachel Schneider, Metal Slinger

“Lifting my fingers to my face, I scrub the pads of my fingers together, feeling the grit of the dirt between them. I have a strange urge to taste it. I bring the tip of my finger to my tongue, which I regret instantly. I hurried to scrape it off, regret hitting me harder as I bite down on tiny grains of sand.
My head bobs from Acker’s silent laughter, alerting me that he’s awake. Probably been awake the whole time, if I had to guess. His chest jerks as he struggles to keep his laughter contained before he loses the battle, a rumble of sound pouring from his mouth.
I can’t help but smile in return. “I don’t know why I did that,” I admit, embarrassed.”
― Rachel Schneider, Metal Slinger

“Only once they were on, bathing the space in a soft glow that made it look more cozy than spooky, did I realize I just spent over 20 minutes giving a makeover to a derelict arcade because I wanted to impress a girl. And to think, just last week, I’d burned a man’s house to the ground and nearly beaten him to death afterwards.
I contained multitudes.”
― Navessa Allen, Caught Up

“Mana Toast. This is toast. It refills your mana. That’s it. Nothing more. Fuck you.”
― Matt Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl

“Did we really just start a meth war between the goblins and the llamas?”
― Matt Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl

“Being eaten by a bugbear makes me uncomfortable, Carl. So if your boyfriend ogling your tootises keeps these easy-peasy bugs coming at us instead of more of those lava-spitting llamas, then you better buck up, get over your human male privilege, and take one for your princess.”
― Matt Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl

“If we get to the point where we don’t help each other anymore, that’s when we stop being human.”
― Matt Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl

“If that’s true,” I said, “then you’re all in that same pot.” I turned to look at the audience. “All of you. If a government is afraid of what its people say, then maybe there’s a reason for it.”
― Matt Dinniman, Carl's Doomsday Scenario

“You’re not going to break me,” I said. “You might hurt me, or kill me, but you’re not going to break me.”
― Matt Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl

“Don’t compare your circumstances with how they were yesterday. Look at how they were years ago.”
― Matt Dinniman, Carl's Doomsday Scenario

“If it used to be okay, but it’s not okay anymore, then maybe you should do something about it. Don’t compare your circumstances with how they were yesterday. Look at how they were years ago. We’re supposed to be making the world… the universe… a better place for our children. If it’s not better, if you’re dealing with cruelty, with neglect, then you should do something about it. So, yeah. Fuck ‘em. Fuck King Rust and his asshole child. If you’re unhappy with your government, then kick them out and set up your own, one that represents the people’s best interests. You shouldn’t have to put up with some loser who’s going to take the people’s money and waste it on games, especially when those games entail killing people weaker than him with little or no real danger to himself. What a pussy. That’s my opinion.”
― Matt Dinniman, Carl's Doomsday Scenario

“They were all gone. All I had left in this world was right here. Mongo soon started to snore. I could feel Donut’s warmth against the back of my neck. She breathed softly, oblivious of all that had occurred tonight. This, I thought, this is my family.”
― Matt Dinniman, Carl's Doomsday Scenario

“All it takes is a little seed, my mom had said that day as we planted the trees. Just little seeds here and there, and soon enough you have a forest.”
― Matt Dinniman, Carl's Doomsday Scenario

“Zev says the shows on Earth are better than anything she’s ever seen. We could make new ones and bring them to the universe. Maybe if the television shows are good enough, people wouldn’t be so interested in watching real-life people kill each other,” she said.”
― Matt Dinniman, Carl's Doomsday Scenario

“murder chicken to go a’murdering”
― Matt Dinniman, Carl's Doomsday Scenario

“Nolan Rhodes said he would walk through hell to drag me out if I ever tried to run. But I don’t hide in hell. I bring it to life.”
― Brynne Weaver, Tourist Season

“I am not sure which I prefer: To be taken for something I am not, or to fail at being what I am”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting