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  • #1
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

  • #2
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Jesper knocked his head against the hull and cast his eyes heavenward. “Fine. But if Pekka Rollins kills us all, I’m going to get Wylan’s ghost to teach my ghost how to play the flute just so that I can annoy the hell out of your ghost.”
    Brekker’s lips quirked. “I’ll just hire Matthias’ ghost to kick your ghost’s ass.”
    “My ghost won’t associate with your ghost,” Matthias said primly, and then wondered if the sea air was rotting his brain.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #3
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Oh, I see. I'm the wicked Grisha seductress. I have beguiled you with my Grisha wiles!"
    She poked him in the chest.
    "Stop that."
    "No. I'm beguiling you.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #4
    Leigh Bardugo
    “When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #5
    Leigh Bardugo
    “It's not natural for women to fight."
    "It's not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #6
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Greed may do your bidding, but death serves no man.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #7
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #8
    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #9
    Stephen Chbosky
    “I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #10
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

  • #11
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

  • #12
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is that?”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

  • #13
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

  • #14
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “When the hearthfire turns to blue,
    what to do? what to do?
    run outside, run and hide

    when his eyes are black as crow?
    where to go? where to go?
    near and far. Here they are.

    see a man without a face?
    move like ghosts from place to place.
    whats their plan? whats their plan?
    Chandrian. Chandrian”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

  • #15
    Ernest Cline
    “I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing '80s cover tunes on ukuleles. Technically, this wasn't part of my research, but I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend.”
    Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

  • #16
    Ernest Cline
    “You could shove it up your ass and pretend you're a corn dog."

    COURTESY VIOLATION-RESPONSE MUTED-VIOLATION LOGGED”
    Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

  • #17
    Ernest Cline
    “For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth. Existentially speaking.”
    Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

  • #18
    Ernest Cline
    “I’d come to see my rig for what it was: an elaborate contraption for deceiving my senses, to allow me to live in a world that didn’t exist. Each component of my rig was a bar in the cell where I had willingly imprisoned myself.”
    Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

  • #19
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

  • #20
    Jesse Andrews
    “The most beautiful thing about you is that you’re not a sock puppet.”
    Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

  • #21
    Brandon Sanderson
    “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

  • #22
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Life before Death.
    Strength before Weakness.
    Journey before Destination.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

  • #23
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

  • #24
    Brandon Sanderson
    “To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

  • #25
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief in right and wrong."
    "But the Almighty determines what is right!"
    "Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality -- which answers only to my heart -- is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

  • #26
    Brandon Sanderson
    “We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

  • #27
    Brandon Sanderson
    “An excuse is what you make after the deed is done, while a justification is what you offer before.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

  • #28
    Blake Crouch
    “No one tells you it's all about to change, to be taken away. There's no proximity alert, no indication that you're standing on the precipice. And maybe that's what makes tragedy so tragic. Not just what happens, but how it happens: a sucker punch that comes at you out of nowhere, when you're least expecting it. No time to flinch or brace.”
    Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

  • #29
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Why hasn't anyone killed him yet?”
    “Dumb luck,” Wit said. “In that I’m lucky you’re all so dumb.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

  • #30
    Brandon Sanderson
    “You sent him to the sky to die, assassin," Kaladin said, Stormlight puffing from his lips, "but the sky and the winds are mine. I claim them, as I now claim your life.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance



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