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  • #1
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #2
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
    Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

  • #3
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “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

  • #4
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “The really unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, or anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present — they are real.”
    Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honour

  • #5
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #6
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.”
    Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honour

  • #7
    Steven Erikson
    “Children are dying."
    Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.”
    Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates

  • #8
    Alan             Moore
    “People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
    Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

  • #9
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “But when he’s cut, I bleed.”
    Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honour

  • #10
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “A true Vor, Miles told himself severely, does not bury his face in his liegewoman's breasts and cry—even if he is at a convenient height for it.”
    Lois McMaster Bujold, The Warrior's Apprentice

  • #11
    Neil Gaiman
    “People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #12
    Neil Gaiman
    “What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”
    Neil Gaiman, American Gods

  • #13
    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #14
    W.C. Fields
    “It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
    W.C. Fields

  • #15
    Susan Elizabeth Phillips
    “I don't love you anymore", she whispered. "I don't love you at all." His throat closed. "It's all right, sweetheart. I love you enough for both of us.”
    Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Kiss an Angel
    tags: love

  • #16
    Susan Elizabeth Phillips
    “He shook his head. "The next time I hear a women going on about how neurotic men are, I'm going to remember this. You tell me you like my body, and what do I say? I say, thank you. Then I tell you I like yours and what do I hear? A long lists of grievances.”
    Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Kiss an Angel

  • #17
    Susan Elizabeth Phillips
    “sometimes knowing when to give up is the real test of character...

    -annabelle granger”
    Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Match Me If You Can

  • #18
    Susan Elizabeth Phillips
    “Anything worth having is worth fighting for.”
    Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Heaven, Texas

  • #19
    Susan Elizabeth Phillips
    “If I could put my brain in her body, the world would be mine for the taking.”
    Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Match Me If You Can

  • #20
    Susan Elizabeth Phillips
    “It was a kiss made in lonely dreams. A kiss that took its time. A kiss that felt so right she couldn't remember all the reasons it was wrong.”
    Susan Elizabeth Phillips, This Heart of Mine

  • #21
    Susan Elizabeth Phillips
    “I happen to be immature, undisciplined, and self-centered, pretty much a little boy in a man's body, although I'd appreciate it if you didn't quote me on that.

    -Bobby Tom”
    Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Heaven, Texas

  • #22
    Susan Elizabeth Phillips
    “When did my house turn into a hangout for every grossly overpaid, terminally pampered professional football player in northern Illinois?"

    "We like it here," Jason said. "It reminds us of home."

    "Plus, no women around." Leandro Collins, the Bears' first-string tight end emerged from the office munching on a bag of chips. "There's times when you need a rest from the ladies."

    Annabelle shot out her arm and smacked him in the side of the head. "Don't forget who you're talking to."

    Leandro had a short fuse, and he'd been known to take out a ref here and there when he didn't like a call, but the tight end merely rubbed the side of his head and grimaced. "Just like my mama."

    "Mine, too," Tremaine said with happy nod.

    Annabelle spun on Heath. "Their mother! I'm thirty-one years old, and I remind them of their mothers."

    "You act like my mother," Sean pointed out, unwisely as it transpired, because he got a swat in the head next.”
    Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Match Me If You Can

  • #23
    Susan Elizabeth Phillips
    “I married a damned cereal killer”
    Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Nobody's Baby But Mine

  • #24
    Susan Elizabeth Phillips
    “Don't dare a person who has nothing else left to lose.”
    Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Kiss an Angel

  • #25
    Susan Elizabeth Phillips
    “When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.”
    Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Ain't She Sweet?

  • #26
    Bill Watterson
    “People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.”
    Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

  • #27
    Charles Bukowski
    “My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
    Charles Bukowski, Factotum

  • #28
    Neil LaBute
    “The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.”
    Neil LaBute, Reasons to Be Pretty

  • #29
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle

  • #30
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.”
    Lois McMaster Bujold, Labyrinth



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