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“It takes less time for them to conquer the world than it takes for me to brush my teeth. That's pretty disappointing." Jesse from ALIEN INVASION & OTHER INCONVENIENCES.”
― Brian Yansky

“You don’t mess with someone’s dog. You just don’t.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian of the Haunted Library

“Idecided to go to the town cemetery to think. Cemeteries had always been good places for me. They were quiet.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian of the Haunted Library

“I’m pretty sure heroes don’t whine. They quietly endure cold, fireless nights. Further proof I’m no hero.”
― Brian Yansky, Homicidal Aliens and Other Disappointments

“I guess I knew nothing would. I needed to go back to 2013. Beyonce, the Super Bowl halftime show, the Boston Marathon bombings, Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones 2013. And most importantly to me, the death of Master Lee.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian and the Time Machine

“I’ve got to convince my friends that I’m right. Of course I’m aware of one little problem. If I’m wrong, we all die.”
― Brian Yansky, Alien Invasion and Other Inconveniences

“course, someone needed to be blamed when things went wrong, and the new guy or the new gal was certainly there for that purpose. Then there was the fear that always came with losing a grip on things. Mix that with a proper scapegoat, and you could have a combustible situation where a number of foolish things could happen.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian and the Monster

“You mean you have a natural inclination,” I said. “Maybe I do too, but I choose not to give into it. A lot of evil is just selfishness.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian of the Haunted Library

“It was like I was getting assignments from the universe. The voice wasn’t always just in dreams. Sometimes a crow would talk to me or a person who seemed in a trance. Once it was a statue of Abraham Lincoln. Some people might say they were from god but which one? There were thousands. I did think it was an older god, if it was a god. A new one would have texted.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian of the Haunted Library

“Funny how a big, horrible worry doesn’t wipe out all the little worries. They’re like bugs. They survive no matter what.”
― Brian Yansky, Alien Invasion and Other Inconveniences

“... the illusion of safety I didn’t even know I was feeling – the safety of being in a group, the safety of numbers – disappears.”
― Brian Yansky, Homicidal Aliens and Other Disappointments

“When a bad thing happens, a terrible thing, you feel it all the time, but you don’t have a choice after a while. You go on anyway. I never would have understood that before. It’s something I would have been happy to live my whole life without understanding.”
― Brian Yansky, Alien Invasion and Other Inconveniences

“I feel one thing. I’m tired of running. I want to fight. No matter what, I want to fight.”
― Brian Yansky, Homicidal Aliens and Other Disappointments

“Libraries had magic in them. What was inside books was magic. Written language was how we talked to dead people, important ones from the past. How we listened to them, anyway. And in the present too and maybe in the future. It was all there in the written word.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian and the Knife of Death

“He said he could run me in for vagrancy. It was a crime to have no money. That was America for you. The cop, a nice guy, ended up giving me a few dollars and told me about a shelter. That was America for you, too.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian of the Haunted Library

“It takes less time for them to conquer the world than it takes for me to brush my teeth. That's pretty disappointing.”
― Brian Yansky, Alien Invasion and Other Inconveniences

“Dude, I’ve known people who pretend to be crazy, but you, my friend, are the real deal.”
― Brian Yansky, Alien Invasion and Other Inconveniences

“But quite a few rules were made by someone hoping to use the rule to benefit themselves, and even a good rule could sometimes be applied in a bad way. Rules should be viewed with suspicion first and acceptance second.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian of the Haunted Library

“I can feel the fear coming out of me like sweat.”
― Brian Yansky, Alien Invasion and Other Inconveniences

“I read this book by Kurt Vonnegut about half a dozen times called Slaughterhouse-Five. In the novel, when humans do terrible things, sad and evil and disappointing things, the narrator often says, ‘So it goes.’ There’s a deep sadness in the phrase and also a hopelessness.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian of the Haunted Library

“It wasn’t like I didn’t know what curiosity did to the cat. But before it killed him or her, what wonders the cat must have seen? Anyway, the truth is no one gets out of here alive. Maybe satisfying a curiosity wasn’t the worst way to go.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian and the Knife of Death

“She raised her pinky. I’d never seen anyone raise their pinky before. Maybe I was in the presence of royalty. But why the pinky? Some rules of etiquette seemed pretty random to me.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian of the Haunted Library

“Maybe I just need to try harder to understand the way she sees things.”
― Brian Yansky, Homicidal Aliens and Other Disappointments

“It is time for a change. Our librarian isn’t up to the task of protecting us. We need a true wizard. I must be both librarian and mayor. Only I can save us now. I only say this to protect us all. The librarian doesn’t have the right skills.” The dictator’s call to action. Always the same. Always the one meant to serve himself. Only I can save you. Only I can save you after I rule you. I need to rule you.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian and the Monster

“He said, “Kevin Austin?” I told him the nuns in the orphanage gave me my birth city for a surname. He said he could run me in for vagrancy. It was a crime to have no money. That was America for you. The cop, a nice guy, ended up giving me a few dollars and told me about a shelter. That was America for you, too. I went to the shelter that night, but it was full.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian of the Haunted Library

“People thought they were born in the light or in the dark. But everyone had some of both. The amounts were the difference. What you did with those amounts were the difference.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian of the Haunted Library

“thousand directions.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian of the Haunted Library

“You think he means to conquer us?” Rip said. “I think he means to protect Eden, but that may now mean, to him, that he has to conquer it to protect it. You know, protect it from itself. That kind of thing that dictators sometimes say.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian and the Monster

“I had gone to sleep on a grassy patch and woke up in the morgue. Obviously, the city was sending me a message, and it wasn’t subtle. Leave. As an orphan, it wasn’t my first experience with being unwanted.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian of the Haunted Library

“Oh, please,” the cat said. “You are his favored creation here on Earth, yes. Perhaps one of the top in this universe, even. But who does he allow to travel through time, like moving from room to room in one of your houses? Who is by far the most beautiful creature in the universes?” These were rhetorical questions, and I refused to answer them. It earned me a terrible cat smile. “Favored indeed. Now you know.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian and the Time Machine