

“Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.”
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“Yes, and our kid brother Superhero has died so many times that the readers barely even notice anymore.”
― Fables, Vol. 13: The Great Fables Crossover
― Fables, Vol. 13: The Great Fables Crossover

“It was great! Straight-A student. Hanging around nerdy guys too scared to try anything. No wild side at all. You were every father’s dream daughter.” “Thanks, Dad, I—” “But then you got on a giant bomb that blasted you to Mars. And I mean that literally.”
― The Martian
― The Martian

“Always the cricket; one movie credit and it’s like he’s the gold standard...”
― The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue
― The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“As he cut, the wildness of the world receded, the vast invisible web of filaments that connected human life to animals, trees to flesh and bones to grass shivered as each tree fell and one by one the web strands snapped. After”
― Barkskins
― Barkskins
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