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#1

“Because it's easy to ignore a woman." Juniper's lips twist in a feral smile. "But a hell of a lot harder to ignore a witch.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

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#2

“But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

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#3

“Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

tags: freedom, justice, revolution, slogan, truth

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#4

“One flesh, one end, bitch.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

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#5

“Harrowhark said, in the exact sepulchral tones of Marshal Crux: “Death first to vultures and scavengers.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

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#6

“But Gideon was experiencing one powerful emotion: being sick of everyone’s shit.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

tags: humor

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#7

“Luxury always comes at someone else’s expense. One of the many advantages of civilization is that one doesn’t generally have to see that, if one doesn’t wish. You’re free to enjoy its benefits without troubling your conscience.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice

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#8

“The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

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#9

“You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was, ‘But we’ve always done it this way.’ A million dead people can’t have been wrong, can they?”
― Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant

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#10

“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”
― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

tags: fallibility, humor

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#11

“Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive. ”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

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#12

“If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

tags: cats, humor, life

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#13

“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

tags: humor, metaphysics, physics, science

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#14

“And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.”
― Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

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#15

“Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn’t do good for people, she did right by them.”
― Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

tags: humor, wisdom

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#16

“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

tags: education

2375 likes

#17

“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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#18

“Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

tags: better

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#19

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

tags: philosophy

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#20

“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

tags: foreshadowing, macbeth

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#21

“Look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under it.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

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#22

“I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more, is none”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

tags: dare, macbeth, man

300 likes

#23

“I love a little gall on gall.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

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#24

“Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.”
― Emma Donoghue, Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

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#25

“And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the castle and could be seen walking on the battlements, and others told of two beauties, and others, of two beasts.”
― Emma Donoghue, Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

tags: beauty-and-the-beast, fairy-tales-for-adults, love, perceptions

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#26

“I looked in my mirror and saw, not myself, but every place I'd never been.”
― Emma Donoghue, Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

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#27

“Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.”
― Emma Donoghue, Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

tags: change, fairy-tales, inspirational, skin

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#28

“I’ve been thinking,” I said to Oissen, when he returned the next afternoon. “Yes, the Myriad had warned me you might do that.”
― Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower

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#29

“It is only one world in infinite universes where this impossible happiness exists, but that is what makes it so valuable.”
― Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds

tags: multiverse, scifi

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#30

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading

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