"We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls."
— Bill Bryson

"Black bears rarely attack. But here's the thing. Sometimes they do. All bears are agile, cunning and immensely strong, and the are always hungry. If they want to kill you and eat you, they can, and pretty much whenever they want. That doesn't happen often, but - and here is the absolutely salient point - once would be enough."
— Bill Bryson (A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail)

"In the end, following the Dark Road is no less honorable than following the Light, as long as it is done with a clear purpose."
— Clive Barker (Abarat)

"Fairy tales, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated."
— G.K. Chesterton

"When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning."
— Neil Gaiman (Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions)

"Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections)

"I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones)

"You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes)

"To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 4: Season of Mists)

"Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time."
— Neil Gaiman (Anansi Boys)

"Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us."
— Neil Gaiman (Stardust)

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

"Me and polite have never been on close terms."
— Jim Butcher

"Bob the Skull: You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me."
— Jim Butcher (Proven Guilty)

"We have a responsibility to stand watch over one another, we are watchers, all of us, watchers, guarding against the darkness."
— Dean Koontz

"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."
— C.S. Lewis

"(The Christian) does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us."
— C.S. Lewis

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word "darkness" on the walls of his cell."
— C.S. Lewis

"Chris:I forgive you.
Annie: For killing my children and my sweet husband?
Chris: For being so wonderful a guy would choose hell over heaven just to be around you.
"
— Richard Matheson (What Dreams May Come)

"Chris Nielsen: Thank you for every kindness. Thank you for our children. For the first time I saw them. Thank you for being someone I was always proud to be with. For your guts, for your sweetness. For how you always looked, for how I always wanted to touch you. God, you were my life. I apologize for everytime I ever failed you. Especially this one... "
— Richard Matheson (What Dreams May Come)

"I pulled the MG in beside him at the curb and he got in.
"This thing ain't big enough for either one of us," he said. "When you getting something that fits?"
"It goes with my preppy look," I said. "You get one of these, they let you drive around the north shore, watch polo, anything you want."
I let the clutch in and turned right on Dartmouth.
"How you get laid in one of these?" Hawk said.
"You just don't understand preppy," I said. "I know it's not your fault. You're only a couple generations out of the jungle. I realize that. But if you're preppy you don't get laid in a car."
"Where do you get laid if you preppy?"
I sniffed. "One doesn't" I said.
"Preppies gonna be outnumbered in a while" Hawk said."
— Robert B. Parker (Ceremony)

"It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it."
— Terry Pratchett

"Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken."
— Terry Pratchett (Eric)

"Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual."
— Terry Pratchett (Jingo)

"In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded."
— Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)

"Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things."
— Terry Pratchett (Sourcery)

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

"This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic."
— Terry Pratchett

"To save the world takes one cold son of a bitch."
— Terry Pratchett

"Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized."
— Terry Pratchett (Interesting Times)

"Reality continues to ruin my life."
— Bill Watterson (The Complete Calvin and Hobbes)

"Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice."
— Bill Watterson

"As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway."
— Bill Watterson (The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes)

"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us."
— Bill Watterson

"Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am? "
— Bill Watterson (The Essential Calvin and Hobbes)

"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)

"I'd hate to have a kid like me."
— Bill Watterson (The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes)

"I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know."
— Bill Watterson (The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes)

"I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple."
— Bill Watterson (The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes)

"I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal."
— Bill Watterson (The Essential Calvin and Hobbes)

"I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world."
— Bill Watterson (The Essential Calvin and Hobbes)

"God put me on earth to accomplish certain things. Right now, I’m so far behind, I’ll never die."
— Bill Watterson

"When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?"
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club: A Novel)

"We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

"My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Choke)

"Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need." - Tyler Durdin "
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club: A Novel)

"In name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!"
— Jim Butcher (Summer Knight)

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
— Mark Twain