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#1

“You must come to my office to play cards sometime. Bring a lot of money. Be sensible, comrade.” “We would be very excited to get our hands on a current-generation American atomic device,” says Defense. “We are less interested in receiving several hundred at once. So no, we will not be claiming any direct responsibility for sinking their fucking warships.”
― Scott Lynch, Uncanny Magazine Issue 62: January/February 2025

tags: atomic-bomb, excited

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#2

“I defended myself when they attacked me.”
“You defended yourself with deadly force.”
“It’s a funny thing, but harmless force doesn’t work real well...”
― Lindsay Buroker, Mist and Magic

tags: deadly, deadly-force, force

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#3

“Getting there depended on getting out of here before anyone twigged to the I-Hope-Fact that I wasn't as stupid as I looked”
― Rosemary Edghill, Archangel Blues

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#4

“If you value your safety at all, do not tempt the universe by saying your day can't get weirder. It doesn't like that, and it will find a way to turn the weird shit up to eleven”
― Jennifer Lee Rossman, Unidentified Funny Objects 7

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#5

“I almost grabbed the Idea's tail, but it bit me and slithered away”
― Rosemary Edghill, Archangel Blues

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#6

“If that’s not good enough, tell him that Dorothy Gale, Wicked Witch of the West, will have a minute of his time. If he’s accommodating now, my minute won’t happen unexpectedly in the middle of the night.”
― Seanan McGuire, Emeralds to Emeralds, Dust to Dust

tags: dorothy, oz, witch

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#7

“What an unequaled gift for disaster you have.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

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#8

“Behold, my wonderboots! All the kick-ass of an Aeluon assault squad, combined with total ergonomic perfection! It’s podiatric madness! What are they? Are they big tough stompers? Are they comfy kick-arounds? No one knows! There are feats of science happening right over my socks as we speak!”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

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#9

“The girl's a rancid bucket of leeches on the inside, but she has a face that could move angels to murder.”
― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway

tags: beauty

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#10

“Keep breathing,’ I said. ‘It’s a habit you don’t want to break.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, Midnight Riot

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#11

“Sadly, after a certain age, no intelligent child continues believing in their parents, and it is embarrassing when one professes such faith after puberty. Santa Claus, however, will never fail us”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Best of Catherynne M. Valente, Volume One

tags: christmas, santa

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#12

“Old ladies in the Gale family drove like they owned the roads. And the other drivers. And the local police department. And the laws of physics.”
― Tanya Huff, The Wild Ways

tags: driving, magic

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#13

“What do they do for a village idiot when you're here?”
― Tanya Huff, Blood Price

tags: idiot, village

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#14

“Opizzi, are you chewing gum?” “Big believer in minty fresh breath, Sarge.” “If you choke on it…” “Fully capable of running and chewing gum, Sarge.”
― Tanya Huff, The Shorter Parts of Valor

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#15

“Ever have one of those epiphanies that just screams you’re a complete moron?”
― Seanan McGuire, Rosemary and Rue

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#16

“We pray, lead us not into Temptation, but it’s a request, not an order.
And that fact that we ask Him not to do it suggests that He’s capable of it, and from time to time He does”
― K.J. Parker, The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine, Year Eight

tags: pray, prayer, sin, temptation

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#17

“The problem with authority is that if you leave it lying around, others will take it away from you.”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit

tags: authority-and-attitude

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#18

“I started back around to see what she was havering at when all kinds bells and whistles went off at once across Dance's boards and all the cockpit lights went green-amber-red and 'I'm Not Ready for This'.”
― Rosemary Edghill, Archangel Blues

tags: humor, technology

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#19

“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

tags: einstein, gaiman, god, humor

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#20

“remember the plan,” said Sancia. “I just also remember there’s a lot of spots in the plan that say, ‘Sancia improvises a bunch of shit.’ Which is not, you know, comforting.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, Shorefall

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#21

“What the hell did I just drink, anyway?” “A little something I call the Amoral Instrument,” said Sophara. Her eyes were shining. “I’m not allowed to make it for customers. Kind of curious to see what happens to you, in fact.”
― Scott Lynch, A Year and a Day in Old Theradane

tags: drinking

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#22

“Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!”
― C. J. Cherryh

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#23

“A cold moment passed. Then with a black, hard voice, Quee Lee said to her long-time friend, “Really, it would be best if you left. Now, this moment. And if you can, I think you should run. Because in another moment, or two, I’m going to find a very long knife, and I’m going to cut out your ugly heart.”
― Robert Reed, River of the Queen

tags: because, heart, run

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#24

“The plesiosaur was cranky and snappy, but it couldn’t leave the water. Well.
I didn’t think it could leave the water.
It probably couldn’t leave the water.
I decided to stay a little farther back from the water.”
― Seanan McGuire, Chaos Choreography

tags: leave-the-water, snappy

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#25

“deceleration through lithobraking”
― Eric Flint, Threshold

tags: braking, deceleration

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#26

“Diaper spelled backwards is repaid , think about it.”
― Marshall McLuhan

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#27

“I’d always thought the very worst thing one could do was say or repeat anything that one hadn’t made sure was true. People’s lives could depend on one’s accuracy. To me, the rumor mill seemed not just cruel, but deranged.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen

tags: truth

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#28

“I turned to find her standing over the body of the knife-fighter, a petulant look on her face. “I broke mine,” she said, only half apologetically. She raised her head. “Is yours in any shape to be questioned? Because mine isn’t.”
― Seanan McGuire, Chaos Choreography

tags: broken, questioned

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#29

“A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.”
― Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves

tags: bitterness, truth, women

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#30

“Throwing blondes at Locke Lamora was not unlike throwing lettuce at sharks.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

tags: fantasy, gentleman-bastard, humour, locke-lamora

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