"The last refuge of a scoundrel is jargon."
— Douglas McFarland

"The men in my family are strong because the women in my family kill and eat the weak ones."
— Robert Jordan

"Read and find out."
— Robert Jordan

"Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your loses for too long."
— Robert Jordan

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn to the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
— Frank Herbert (Dune)

"The Force will be with you...always."
— Obi Wan Kenobi

"Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?"
— Robert Jordan

"I will see you bereft of all that you have, of home and happiness and beautiful things. I will see your nation cast down and your allies drawn away. I will see you as alone and friendless and wretched as am I; and then you may live as long as you like, in some dark and lonely corner of the earth, and I shall call myself content.

-Lien, Albino Celestial (Dragon) "
— Naomi Novik (Black Powder War)

"My hair had grown out long and shaggy—not in that sexy-young-rock-star kind of way but in that time-to-take-Rover-to-the-groomer kind of way."
— Jim Butcher (White Night)

"Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face."
— Jim Butcher (Storm Front)

"If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written."
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl)

"If you were me, then I'd be you, and if I were you, then I'd hide somewhere far away."
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code)

"If it looks like a Dwarf, and it smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf or a latrine wearing dungerees."
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony)

"Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you"
— Annie Dillard

"Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them"
— Annie Dillard

"Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world."
— Annie Dillard