"'I did not ask for objections, but for comments, or helpful suggestions. I looked for more loyalty from you, Captain Hornblower.'

That made the whole argument pointless. If Leighton only wanted servile agreement there was no sense in continuing..."
— C.S. Forester (Ship of the Line)

"When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument."
— C.S. Forester (African Queen)

"Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.
The Speed of Dark"
— Elizabeth Moon

"“Oh, bother!,” said Pooh, as Piglet came back from the dead."
— David Weber

"It was rumored she held grudges till they died of old age, then had them stuffed and mounted."
— David Weber (Field of Dishonor)

"Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself."
— Lois McMaster Bujold (A Civil Campaign)

"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)

"All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters."
— Lois McMaster Bujold (Komarr)

"Treasures are not won by care and forethought
but by swift slaying and reckless attack."
— Michael Moorcock

"Time is the enemy of identity"
— Michael Moorcock

"What happened to fantasy for me is what also happened to rock and roll. It found a common denominator for making maximum money. As a result, it lost its tensions, its anger, its edginess and turned into one big cup of cocoa."
— Michael Moorcock

"When you play a game of thrones you win or you die. There is no middle ground."
— George R.R. Martin

"We make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And - if we are strong enough - we live with the consequences."
— David Gemmell

"Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense."
— L.E. Modesitt Jr.

""If you do good because you expect to be rewarded, it is greed.""
— L.E. Modesitt Jr.

"There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging that they have occurred, to restructure our own understanding of reality. We have to make room for them."
— Guy Gavriel Kay (The Summer Tree)

"So you do believe in... true love? she whispered.
I took a deep breath, I think I have to, I said, blinking back tears. Without it, we're all going nowhere."
— Juliet Marillier (Wildwood Dancing)

"'If a man has to say trust me it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you do without words. "
— Juliet Marillier (Wildwood Dancing)

""There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.""
— Michael Connelly (The Brass Verdict)

"...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character."
— Michael Connelly

"In the long run, all wrongs are righted, every minus is equalized with a plus, the columns are totaled and the totals are found correct. But that's in the long run. We must live in the short run and matters are often unjust there. The compensating for us of the universe makes all the accounts come out even, but they grind down the good as well as the wicked in the process."
— Michael Connelly (The Poet)

"Helloooo? I just made some changes in my life, and if I don't get back to you as soon as possible, then guess what? You were one of those changes."
— Rumiko Takahashi

"Every tree and plant in the medouw seemed to be dancing, those with average eyes would see as fixed and still."
— Rumiko Takahashi

"Life is just a slow march towards death."
— Marley

"Looks are only temporary, but intelct is forever. "
— Marley

"We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation. "
— Hayao Miyazaki

"I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films. They became very conservative in the way they created them. It's too bad. I thought 2-D and 3-D could coexist happily."
— Hayao Miyazaki

"I'm not going to make movies that tell children, "You should despair and run away"."
— Hayao Miyazaki