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  • #1
    Aaron Dembski-Bowden
    “Everything is darkest," Xaphen mused, "before the dawn."

    "That, my brother, is an axiom that sounds immensely profound until you realize it's a lie.”
    Aaron Dembski-Bowden, The First Heretic

  • #2
    Dan Abnett
    “But my patience isn't limitless... unlike my authority.”
    Dan Abnett, Xenos

  • #3
    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.”
    Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish

  • #3
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.”
    H.P. Lovecraft, The Outsider

  • #4
    Dan Abnett
    “If he speaks again without me knowing who he is, I will throw him out of the window. And I won't open it first.”
    Dan Abnett, Xenos

  • #6
    Guy Haley
    “No, but if I were an illegal, experimental replicant hiding the truth of an international conspiracy I would try and put myself out of the way of those investigating it, wouldn't you? I don't think hiding under a bed will be very successful. But, if you've any better idea of what the deadly robot assassin is up to, please feel free to act upon it.”
    Guy Haley, Reality 36

  • #6
    Mark  Lawrence
    “Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.”
    Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

  • #7
    Serra Elinsen
    “I... I cannot take you to the Pumpkin Ball.”
    Serra Elinsen, Awoken

  • #8
    Scott Lynch
    “If you want to write a negative review, don't tickle me gently with your aesthetic displeasure about my work. Unleash the goddamn Kraken."

    [on Twitter, July 17, 2012]”
    Scott Lynch

  • #9
    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

  • #11
    Scott Lynch
    “You can't help being young, but it's past time that you stopped being stupid.”
    Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

  • #12
    Scott Lynch
    “I don't expect life to make sense," he said after a few moments, "but it could certainly be pleasant if it would stop kicking us in the balls.”
    Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves
    tags: life

  • #13
    Scott Lynch
    “We’re a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We don’t believe in hard work when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more.”
    Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

  • #14
    Scott Lynch
    “I can't wait to have words with the Gray King when this shit is all finished," Locke whispered. "There's a few things I want to ask him. Philosophical questions. Like, 'How does it feel to be dangled out a window by a rope tied around your balls, motherfucker?”
    Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

  • #15
    Bram Stoker
    “Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
    Bram Stoker

  • #16
    Bram Stoker
    “Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”
    Bram Stoker, Dracula

  • #17
    My course is set for an uncharted sea.
    “My course is set for an uncharted sea.”
    Dante Alighieri

  • #18
    Gail Simone
    “I'm not Barbara Gordon. I have to keep remembering that. Tonight, I'm not Barbara. Tonight, I'm not the Police Commissioner's daughter.
    Tonight, I'm the one who pored over the details of the confidential police and reports when her dad wasn't looking.
    I'm the one who recognized the vintage costumes you wear.
    Tonight?
    Tonight, I'm Batgirl.”
    Gail Simone

  • #19
    Mark  Lawrence
    “No man should go to Valhalla with brothel rash.”
    Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools

  • #20
    Douglas Adams
    “He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #21
    Douglas Adams
    “The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. ”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #22
    Douglas Adams
    “Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #23
    Bram Stoker
    “Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.”
    Bram Stoker, Dracula

  • #24
    Peter S. Beagle
    “It’s a rare man who is taken for what he truly is.”
    Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

  • #25
    Peter S. Beagle
    “I have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet. I am full of tears and hunger and the fear of death, although I cannot weep, and I want nothing, and I cannot die. I am not like the others now, for no unicorn was ever born who could regret, but I do. I regret.”
    Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

  • #26
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way.”
    H.P. Lovecraft, The Rats in the Walls

  • #27
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.”
    H.P. Lovecraft

  • #28
    Michael J. Sullivan
    “You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also make you stupid. You end up tripping over your own two feet.” (Hadrian)”
    Michael J. Sullivan, Theft of Swords

  • #29
    Michael J. Sullivan
    “When you are so ashamed of your actions, thoughts, or intentions, you lie rather than accepting yourself for who you really are—or, in this case, pretend something happened when it didn’t. The idea of how others see you becomes more important than the reality of you.”
    Michael J. Sullivan

  • #30
    Graham McNeill
    “When you have come to the edge of all that you know and are about to drop off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things will happen,’ the Warmaster had told him.
    ‘And what are they?’ he had asked.
    ‘That there will be something solid to stand on or you’ll be taught to fly,’ laughed Horus as he jumped.”
    Graham McNeill, False Gods



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