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“- ბოროტება ბოროტებაა, სტრებოგორ - მხედვარი წამოდგა, - ნაკლები, მეტი, საშუალო - სულერთია. ზომები პირობითია, საზღვრები - არეული.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski

“Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor...I am Pagliacci.”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen

“ჯორჯ ორუელი ცდებოდა.
დიდი ძმა თვალყურს კი არ გადევნებს, ის ცეკვავს და მღერის, მას ბოცვრები ამოჰყავს ჯადოსნური ქუდიდან. ყოველთვის, როცა არ გძინავს, დიდი ძმა გართობს, ყურადღებას გიფანტავს, ყველაფერს აკეთებს იმისათვის, რომ მთლიანად იყო შთანთქმული და არ იფიქრო.
ის ყველაფერს აკეთებს იმისათვის, რომ წარმოსახვის უნარი გაგიქროს, და იქამდე არ მოგეშვება, ვიდრე მას ბრმა ნაწლავივით უსარგებლოდ არ გიქცევს. დიდი ძმა თვალყურს ადევნებს, რომ შენი ყურადღება გამუდმებით რაღაცაზე იყოს მიჯაჭვული.
და ეს უფრო უარესია, ვიდრე ის, რომ თვალს არ გაშორებდეს. უარესია, როცა ამდენი ხარახურით გავსებენ. როცა ადამიანს წარმოსახვა ატროფირებული აქვს, ის საფრთხეს აღარ წარმოადგენს:

სუპერ!

(გია ბერაძის თარგმანი)”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“And why not?' the merchant replied seriously. 'Why not have doubts? It's nothing but a human and good thing'.

'What?'

'Doubt. Only an evil man, master Geralt, is without it. And no one escapes his destiny'.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski

“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

“No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen

“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“The wise wait for their moment, but never let it pass.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King

“... Never worry about what has been done. Only about what will be.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King

“If you can’t find anything to complain about you aren’t looking hard enough.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King

“But enemies, as his mother used to say, are the price of success.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King

“Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.”
― Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.”
― Edith Wharton, Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses

“I am Ubik. Before the universe was, I am. I made the suns. I made the worlds. I created the lives and the places they inhabit; I move them here, I put them there. They go as I say, then do as I tell them. I am the word and my name is never spoken, the name which no one knows. I am called Ubik, but that is not my name. I am. I shall always be.”
― Philip K. Dick, Ubik

“In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Culture is like a smog. To live
within it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, be
contaminated.”
― Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“The desire for knowledge shapes a man.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

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

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“It is still beautiful to hear the heart beat
but often the shadow seems more real than the body.”
― Tomas Tranströmer