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#1

“Not only do we live among the stars, the stars live within us.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

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#2

“Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.”
― Jon Stewart

tags: humor, religion

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#3

“Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

tags: humor, life, metaphor, zen

928 likes

#4

“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family. ”
― Jim Butcher

tags: family

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#5

“In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!”
― Jim Butcher, Summer Knight

tags: harry-dresden, humor, motivation

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#6

“We are not going to die."

Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?"

"No. And do you know why?" He shook his head. "Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die." I hauled on the shirt even harder. "And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

tags: harry-dresden, humor, motivation, optimism, thomas-raith, waldo-butters

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#7

“Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.”
― Jim Butcher, Death Masks

tags: harry-dresden, life, thomas-raith

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#8

“Curran looked back at me. "Why is it you always attract creeps?"

"You tell me." Ha! Walked right into that one, yes, he did.”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Strikes

tags: humor

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#9

“It's a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really.”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Bites

tags: books, humor

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#10

“I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Bleeds

tags: fire, humor, picket-fence, social-commentary

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#11

“Yes I can,” Curran snarled. “Listen: this is me telling you what you will not do.”
I raised the cookbook and tapped him on the nose. Bad cat.”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Slays

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#12

“I would not leave you. I'll be there. Wherever you want 'there' to be.”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Slays

tags: curran, kate

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#13

“I'll always want him. Until every sun goes dark in every sky, until I am nothing more than long-forgotten cosmic dust, I will want him. And even then I suspect my particles will long for his.”
― Ann Aguirre, Doubleblind

tags: desire, love

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#14

“No matter how interminable something feels, there is always, always an ending. Sometimes that's good, and sometimes it's bad; sometimes it's a matter of indifference, and sometimes it's heartbreaking, and your life is never the same thereafter.”
― Ann Aguirre, Grimspace

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#15

“Men always want to be remembered whereas women realize that requires being dead.”
― Ann Aguirre, Killbox

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#16

“Nobility and self-sacrifice sound wonderful in theory, but now he’s seen how it feels. A dead hero is still dead at the end of the day, and you’re still alone.”
― Ann Aguirre, Killbox

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#17

“Black Court vampires. I just shortened it some."

Ebenezar tsked. "Blampires. That's the problem with you young people. Shortening all the words.”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

tags: ebenezar-mccoy, harry-dresden, humor

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#18

“Vanity, thy name is vampire.”
― Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty

tags: harry-dresden, thomas-raith, vampires, vanity

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#19

“I love being a wizard. Every day is like Disneyland.”
― Jim Butcher, Turn Coat

tags: harry-dresden, humor

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#20

“Hell’s bells. I don’t call him the Fist of God as a pet name, folks.”
― Jim Butcher, Small Favor

tags: harry-dresden, humor, michael-carpenter

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#21

“Yeah, but I forgot to take my George Orwell-shaped multivitamins along with my breakfast bowl of Big Brother Os this morning.”
― Jim Butcher, White Night

tags: harry-dresden, humor

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#22

“But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.”
― Anne Bronte

tags: beauty, defenses, roses, thorns

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#23

“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: war

1112 likes

#24

“We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

tags: cruelty, gods, hubris, humanity

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#25

“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: gandalf, grief

5956 likes

#26

“In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn.”
― Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

3105 likes

#27

“I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.”
― Octavia E. Butler

tags: books, stories, telling-stories, writing

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#28

“All that you touch
You Change.

All that you Change
Changes you.

The only lasting truth
is Change.

God
is Change.”
― Octavia E. Butler

tags: change, god

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#29

“All struggles are essentially power struggles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially power struggles, and most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together.”
― Octavia E. Butler

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#30

“Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

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