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    Neil Gaiman
    “Idris: Are all people like this?
    The Doctor: Like what?
    Idris: So much bigger on the inside.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: brilliance, consciousness, doctor-who, human-greatness, humanity, potential, soul, tardis, the-doctor-s-wife, vastness
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    Steven Moffat
    “Madge: I don't know why I keep shouting at them.
    The Doctor: Because every time you see them happy you remember how sad they're going to be. And it breaks your heart. Because what's the point in them being happy now if they're going to be sad later. The answer is, of course, because they are going to be sad later.
    ~ The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe”
    ― Steven Moffat
    tags: doctor-who, science-fiction
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    pleasefindthis
    “You’re just another story I can’t tell anymore.”
    ― pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You
    tags: break-ups, endings, forgetting-the-past, love, past, relationships
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    pleasefindthis
    “All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that's the tragedy of living.”
    ― pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You
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    pleasefindthis
    “I could’ve sworn I was telling the truth when I told you I didn’t miss you.”
    ― pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You
    tags: break-ups, endings, love, missing-someone, relationships
    341 likes

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    pleasefindthis
    “This isn't me missing you. This is me missing the me I used to be.”
    ― pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You
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    pleasefindthis
    “When I sit near you, my hands suddenly become alien things and I don't know where to put them or what they usually do, like this is the first time I've ever had hands and maybe they go in my pockets and maybe they don't.”
    ― pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You
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    pleasefindthis
    “The best time to reflect is when you like the person looking back.”
    ― pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You
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    pleasefindthis
    “I was wondering if you had a second. To talk about anything at all.”
    ― pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You
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    pleasefindthis
    “Congratulations. You took me down. And now, you have made everything that is sad, relevant.”
    ― pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You
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  • #11
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Elend: I kind of lost track of time…
    Breeze: For two hours?
    Elend: There were books involved.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension
    tags: books, humor
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    Michael Swanwick
    “The bureaucrat fell from the sky.”
    ― Michael Swanwick, Stations of the Tide
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    Michael Swanwick
    “My colleague and I are journalists. ... Not of the muckraking variety, I hasten to assure you! Corruption is a necessary and time-honored concomitant of any functioning government, which we support wholeheartedly.”
    ― Michael Swanwick, Rogues
    tags: government, government-corruption, humor
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    Scott Lynch
    “Someday, Locke Lamora,” he said, “someday, you’re going to fuck up so magnificently, so ambitiously, so overwhelmingly that the sky will light up and the moons will spin and the gods themselves will shit comets with glee. And I just hope I’m still around to see it.”
    “Oh please,” said Locke. “It’ll never happen.”
    ― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora
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    Scott Lynch
    “There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.”
    ― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora
    tags: freedom, locke-lamora, underestimated
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    Scott Lynch
    “I cut off his fingers to get him to talk, and when he'd confessed everything I wanted to hear, I had his fucking tongue cut out, and the stump cauterized."

    Everyone in the room stared at him.

    "I called him an asshole, too," said Locke. "He didn't like that.”
    ― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora
    tags: assholes, bondsmagi, cauterizing, tongues, torture
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    Scott Lynch
    “I don't have to beat you. I don't have to beat you, motherfucker. I just have to keep you here... until Jean shows up.”
    ― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora
    tags: ambush, jean-tannen
    348 likes

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    Neil Gaiman
    “You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
    tags: life
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    tags: childhood, happiness
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?”
    ― Neil Gaiman, A Study in Emerald
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    Neil Gaiman
    “An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.”
    ― Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Even nothing cannot last forever.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
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    Neil Gaiman
    “The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
    tags: future, passage-of-time, time
    883 likes

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    Neil Gaiman
    “You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: explanations, inexplicable, odd, real-life, reality
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Biting's excellent. It's like kissing - only there is a winner.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: biting, doctor-who, idris, kissing, the-doctor, the-doctor-s-wife
    616 likes

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    Neil Gaiman
    “Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: books, fact, librarians, libraries
    651 likes

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    Scott Lynch
    “Nice bird, asshole!”
    ― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora
    tags: bondmage, locke
    353 likes

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  • #28
    Scott Lynch
    “Any man can fart in a closed room and say that he commands the wind”
    ― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies
    221 likes

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    Scott Lynch
    “You’re ten pints of crazy in a one-pint glass.”
    ― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: description, language, power-of-words, words
    3990 likes



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