"I cannot live without books."
— Thomas Jefferson

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
— Benjamin Franklin

"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn."
— Benjamin Franklin

"My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour."
— Jim Butcher (Fool Moon)

"Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving."
— Terry Pratchett (A Hat Full of Sky)

"She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you."
— Terry Pratchett (Equal Rites)