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“If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

“Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
"Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“The thing about witchcraft," said Mistress Weatherwax, "is that it's not like school at all. First you get the test, and then afterward you spend years findin' out how you passed it. It's a bit like life in that respect”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

“The patient bird gets the worm," Skylene said with a confident nod. "That's another classic phrase."
Tangerina rolled her eyes and pulled her friend aside.
"Skylene, the phrase is 'The early bird gets the worm," she said. "It's supposed to encourage people to wake up early."
"Oh," Skylene said. "But that's not very encouraging for an early worm.”
― Chris Colfer, A Tale of Magic...

“There is one necessary but hidden and strange work—a major work—which you must do in secret, for the sake of the dead.”
― C.G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus

“Zoology, eh? That's a big word, isn't it."

"No, actually it isn't," said Tiffany. "Patronizing is a big word. Zoology is really quite short.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

“We always ken where we are! It's just sometimes mebbe we aren't sure where everything else is, but it's no' our fault if everything else gets lost!”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

“To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog

“In China, any idea that dared to take flight would only crash back to the ground. The gravity of reality is too strong.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

“Sometimes regrets aren't based on fact at all”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“You never know where the trapdoors are in your life, do you?”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“Time is the water, Charlie. Life is just the bridge it flows under.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“A brave man helps. A coward just gives presents.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have no tail and no flies”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“If I destroy you, what business is it of yours?”
― Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest

“For the majority of people, what they love exists only in the imagination. The object of their love is not the man or woman of reality, but what he or she is like in their imagination. The person in reality is just a template used for the creation of this dream lover. Eventually, they find out the differences between their dream lover and the template. If they can get used to those differences, then they can be together. If not, they split up. It’s as simple as that. You differ from the majority in one respect: You didn’t need a template.”
― Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest

“Without the fear of heights, there can be no appreciation for the beauty of high places.”
― Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest

“This is the difference between an ordinary scribe and a literary writer. The highest level of literary creation is when the characters in a novel possess life in the mind of the writer. The writer is unable to control them, and might not even be able to predict the next action they will take. We can only follow them in wonder to observe and record the minute details of their lives like a voyeur.”
― Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest

“Once we know where we are, then the world becomes as narrow as a map. When we don’t know, the world feels unlimited.”
― Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest

“What is a game?" Marx said. "It's tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It's the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“There are no ghosts, but up here”—she gestured toward her head—“it’s a haunted house.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“There is a time for any fledgling artist where one's taste exceeds one's abilities. The only way to get through this period is to make things anyway.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“The Big Questions only have small answers, and the Big Answers can only be found through small questions.”
― Gregory David Roberts, The Mountain Shadow

“An amateur is anyone who hasn’t learned how not to do it,’ I said.”
― Gregory David Roberts, The Mountain Shadow

“We are not apes forever. We can change ourselves. We are changing, all the time. We will discover the laws of everything, and we will control our evolution. That is destiny controlling DNA, rather than DNA controlling destiny, as it did forever, until now.”
― Gregory David Roberts, The Mountain Shadow