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“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
― Jane Goodall

“... 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

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

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

“Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.”
― George R.R. Martin

“Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness
begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you”
― Jim Butcher, Furies of Calderon

“Isana felt her throat tighten.
"We failed." Serai lifted her chin and patted Isana's arm firmly.
"We have not yet succeeded. There is a difference.”
― Jim Butcher, Academ's Fury

“My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.”
― Eleanor Brown, The Weird Sisters

“Despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was not a reader, and, well, let's just say that is the sort of nonsense up with which we will not put.”
― Eleanor Brown, The Weird Sisters

“I've never lost a duel to the death. Not one.”
― Jim Butcher, Captain's Fury

“And you've got that look on your face again."
"I can't help it, "Ehren said. "You're about to walk to breakfast, arn't you, regardless of who is in the way?"
"Yes," Tavi said.
Ehren sighed. "Let's hear it."
Tavi told him the plan.
"That's insane," Ehren said.
"It could work."
"You arn't going to have anyone come along to bail you out this time," Ehren pointed out.
Tavi grinned. "Are you with me?"
"The plan is insane," Ehren said. "You are insane." He looked around inside the tent. "I'll need some pants.”
― Jim Butcher, Captain's Fury

“Living was a dangerous past-time, and often quite painful—but there was also such joy in living, such beauty, things that one would otherwise never see, never experience, never know. The risk of pain and loss was a part of living.”
― Jim Butcher, Captain's Fury

“The past was gone. Nothing could change what had already been. Looking back at it, letting its wounds fester, indulging in regret was just a different, slower way to die. The living moved forward.”
― Jim Butcher, Captain's Fury

“Got to die of something," Giraldi observed. "Might as well put back a few pints while you wait to see what it is.”
― Jim Butcher, Cursor's Fury

“An inferior sense of smell," Marcus said, as if absolutely nothing of significance had happened, "is distinct from being told that one smells unpleasant.”
― Jim Butcher, Princeps' Fury

“Knowledge is your weapon...Kill them with it.”
― Jim Butcher, Princeps' Fury

“There are some people who will never understand what
loyalty means. They could tell you what it was, of course,
but they will never know.They will never see it from the inside.
They couldn't imagine a world where something like that was real.”
― Jim Butcher, First Lord's Fury

“It’s called Two and a Half Men,” Dermot was telling his guest.
“I understand,” Bellenos said. “Because the two brothers are grown, and the son isn’t.”
“I think so,” Dermot said. “Don’t you think the son is useless?”
“The half? Yes. At home, we’d eat him,” Bellenos said.”
― Charlaine Harris, Deadlocked

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Ginny!" said Mr. Weasley, flabbergasted. "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”
― J.K. rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Lockhart'll sign anything if it stands still long enough.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets