"'You...are...a...fridge...with wings,' Fang ground out, punching an Eraser hard with every word. 'We're...freaking...ballet...dancers.'"
— James Patterson (School's Out - Forever)

"There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself."
— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

"Hobey-Ho, let's go."
— D.J. MacHale

"I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don't accidentally walk through into another dimension."
— Steven Wright

"People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates love, kindness, open-mindedness, tolerance, curiosity, human intelligence."
— Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials Trilogy: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass)

"There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities."
— Roger Zelazny (The Great Book of Amber)

"I'm the terrorist, do what I say or I'll terrorize you."
— D.J. MacHale (Raven Rise)

"'Share and Enjoy' is the company motto of the hugely successful Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Complaints Division, which now covers the major land masses of three medium-sized planets and is the only part of the Corporation to have shown a consistent profit in recent years.
The motto stands-- or rather stood-- in three mile high illuminated letters near the Complaints Department spaceport on Eadrax. Unfortunately its weight was such that shortly after it was erected, the ground beneath the letters caved in and they dropped for nearly half their length through the offices of many talented young Complaints executives-- now deceased.
The protruding upper halves of the letters now appear, in the local language, to read "Go stick your head in a pig," and are no longer illuminated, except at times of special celebration."
— Douglas Adams (The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story)

"Elend: "Each moment you fight is a gift to those in this cavern. Each second we fight is a second longer that thousands of people can draw breath. Each stroke of the sword, each koloss felled, each breath earned is another victory! It is a person protected for a moment longer, a life extended, an enemy frusturated!"
There was a brief pause.
"In the end they shall kill us. But first they shall fear us!""
— Brandon Sanderson (The Hero of Ages)

"Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art."
— Susan Sontag

"Those who deal in magic learn to see the world in a slightly differnt light than everybody else.you gain a perspective you had considered before. A way of thinking that would never have occurred to you with out exposure to the things a wizard sees and hears.When you look in to some ones eyes you see them in that other light and for just a second they see you in the same way. "
— Jim Butcher

"Reality is what won't go away when you stop believing in it."
— Philip K. Dick

""So, like I said, these are a bunch of really sweet guys, but you wouldn't want to share a Galaxy with them, not if they're just gonna keep at it, not if they're not gonna learn to relax a little. I mean it's just gonna be continual nervous time, isn't it, right? Pow, pow, pow, when are they next coming at us? Peaceful coexistence is just right out, right? Get me some water somebody, thank you."

He sat back and sipped reflectively.

"OK," he said, "hear me, hear me. It's, like, these guys, you know, are entitled to their own view of the Universe. And according to their view, which the Universe forced on them, right, they did right. Sounds crazy, but I think you'll agree. They believe in ..."

He consulted a piece of paper which he found in the back pocket of his Judicial jeans.

"They believe in `peace, justice, morality, culture, sport, family life, and the obliteration of all other life forms'.""
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Tertiary Phase)

"You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history"
— Iain M. Banks

"I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school."
— Orson Scott Card

""We're not obsessed by anything, you see," insisted Ford.

"..."

"And that's the deciding factor. We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win."

"I care about lots of things," said Slartibartfast, his voice trembling partly with annoyance, but partly also with uncertainty.

"Such as?"

"Well," said the old man, "life, the Universe. Everything, really. Fjords."

"Would you die for them?"

"Fjords?" blinked Slartibartfast in surprise. "No."

"Well then."

"Wouldn't see the point, to be honest.""
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Tertiary Phase)

"Wikkity, every time you punch a ninja…an angel gets its wings "
— Eric Anderson

"The world is not beautiful. Therefore it is."
— Keiichi Sigsawa (Kino no Tabi Volume 1: Book one of THE BEAUTIFUL WORLD)

"Now the world has gone to bed,
Darkness wont engulf my head,
I can see by infrared,
How I hate the night.

Now i lay me down to sleep,
Try to count electric sheep,
Sweet dream wishes you can keep,
How i hate the night.
(Marvin) "
— Douglas Adams

"The lights were off so that his heads could avoid looking at each other because neither of them was currently a particular engaging sight, nor had they been since he had made the error of looking into his soul.
It had indeed been an error.
It had been late one night-- of course.
It had been a difficult day-- of course.
There had been soulful music playing on the ship's sound system-- of course.
And he had, of course, been slightly drunk.
In other words, all the usual conditions that bring on a bout of soul searching had applied, but it had, nevertheless, clearly been an error."
— Douglas Adams (Life, the Universe and Everything)

"They have nothing to give. They have no power of making. All their power is to darken and destroy. They cannot leave this place; they are this place; and it should be left to them. They should not be denied nor forgotten, but neither should they be worshiped. The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men’s eyes. And where men worship these things and abase themselves before them, there evil breeds; there places are made in the world where darkness gathers, places given over wholly to the Ones whom we call Nameless, the ancient and holy Powers of the Earth before the Light, the powers of the dark, of ruin, of madness… I think they drove your priestess Kossil mad a long time ago; I think she has prowled these caverns as she prowls the labyrinth of her own self, and now she cannot see the daylight any more. She tells you that the Nameless Ones are dead; only a lost soul, lost to truth, could believe that. They exist. But they are not your Masters. They never were. You are free, Tenar. You were taught to be a slave, but you have broken free."
— Ursula K. LeGuin (The Tombs of Atuan)

"The signs shifted in my mind like a kaleidoscope of visions."
— Kelly Parra (Invisible Touch)

"I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "science fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons)

"The Librarian has spoken, sally! We Dare Not Disobey!"
— James Turner

"The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat"
— John Scalzi (The Last Colony)

"Just my luck: My bloodthirsty killing machine was better with both kids and women than I was."
— Mark L. Van Name

"I spent most of my teen years trying to figure out the rules of life, theories for why things happened, why people behaved as they did, and mostly I came to the conclusion that either there were no rules, or the rules sucked. Reading science fiction wasn't about imagining myself into some more exciting life filled with adventure, it was about finding a world where things worked the way I wanted them to."
— Robin Wasserman

"But maybe she should turn the other way while I get dressed. Wouldn't want to ruin her for other men. - Dean"
— Jeff Mariotte (Supernatural: Witch's Canyon)

"Вы спрашиваете:
Что считаю
Я наивысшим счастьем на земле?
Две вещи:
Менять вот так же состоянье духа,
Как пенни выменял бы я на шиллинг...."
— Arkady Strugatsky (Понедельник начинается в субботу)

"Sheriff, are you suggestin' the victom was kidnapped?"
"I'm only statin' that, at this time, we have no body, only nonvital body parts..."
— Steve Alten (The Loch)

"An older, inebriated Scot who looked like he'd been sitting on his barstool all day looked me up and down, then smelled the air. "Heh, neebr, goat a deid an'mal in yer bac'pac, or iz it ye tha' bloody stinks?"
My brain took a moment to translate. "Actually, yes, there is a dead animal in my backpack, but I probably stink, too.""
— Steve Alten (The Loch)

"Three lights should be fine." - Zachary

"Aye, well if it wis me, I'd want a bloody lighthoose beacon comin' oot o' my arse." - True MacDonald"
— Steve Alten (The Loch)

"The dentist swiveled on his heels and disappeared, leaving me there to massage my jaw back into feeling after its brief, masochistic marriage to the top of my wooden desk."
— Jonathan Lethem (Gun, with Occasional Music)