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“These kids are all trying so hard to be weird. I'm genuinely weird, so I can spot the effort a mile away.”
― Brent Crawford, Carter Finally Gets It

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. For me, the spark that turns an acquaintance into a friend has usually been kindled by some shared enthusiasm . . . At fifteen, I couldn't say two words about the weather or how I was doing, but I could come up with a paragraph or two about the album Charlie Parker with Strings. In high school, I made the first real friends I ever had because one of them came up to me at lunch and started talking about the Cure.”
― Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot

“Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.”
― Sarah Vowell, Assassination Vacation

“Buffy's high school was built on top of a vortex of evil, the Hellmouth. And whose wasn't?”
― Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot

“When I think about my relationship with America, I feel like a battered wife: Yeah, he knocks me around a lot, but boy, he sure can dance.”
― Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli

“The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government.”
― Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot

“Behind every bad law, a deep fear.”
― Sarah Vowell, The Wordy Shipmates

“Oh my dear, idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all.”
― Sarah Vowell

“The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief.”
― Sarah Vowell, The Wordy Shipmates

“A book, being a physical object, engenders a certain respect that zipping electrons cannot. Because you cannot turn a book off, because you have to hold it in your hands, because a book sits there, waiting for you, whether you think you want it or not, because of all these things, a book is a friend. It’s not just the content, but the physical being of a book that is there for you always and unconditionally.”
― Mo Willems

“Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.”
― Bill Watterson

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.”
― Michael Crichton

“High School is the penalty for transgressions yet to be specified.”
― Frank Portman, King Dork

“In a world like this one, only the random makes sense.”
― Libba Bray, Going Bovine

“I'm just saying it's not all sand castles and ninjas.”
― Libba Bray, Going Bovine

“Dude, this is a stoner conversation and we're not even high”
― Libba Bray, Going Bovine

“Cake or death?”
― Eddie Izzard

“The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.”
― Henry Murger

“And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.

So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“The bullet we're running from is almost never the one that hits us.”
― Toby Barlow, Sharp Teeth

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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

“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
― Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

“But really, what else are you going to talk about in line at the liquor store? Childhood trauma seems like the natural choice, since it’s the reason why most of us are in line there to begin with.”
― Jenny Lawson, Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.”
― Steve Martin

“Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.”
― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

“I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.”
― steve martin