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“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.”
― Winston Churchill

“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture—that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves,”
― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

“The silence of death, of the cemetery, was no punishment, but a reward for a life well lived.”
― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

“The last frontier is not Alaska, outer space, the oceans, or the wonders of technology. It’s open-mindedness. Honor the land and its first nation peoples, and their ability to acquire wisdom, sustenance, and happiness from the wild plants and animals around them. Learn through story. Sleep on the ground. Listen. Travel by kayak and canoe.”
― Kim Heacox, John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire: How a Visionary and the Glaciers of Alaska Changed America

“But personally, I think [sainthood] is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to one's god.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion

“I understand that some people find God after misfortune, although this seems to me even more ridiculous than finding Him in good times. 'God smote me. He must love me.' It's like not wanting a romantic relationship until a member of the opposite sex punches you in the face. My 'miraculous survival' will not change my opinion that Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short, and paradoxically, far too long. ”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“Such
times are rare, such times are fleeting, but always bright when caught, measured, hung, and later regarded
in times of adversity, there in the kinder halls of memory, against the flapping of the flames.”
― Roger Zelazny, A Night in the Lonesome October

“None of the things one frets about ever happen. Something one's never thought of does.”
― Connie Willis, Doomsday Book

“That's how you get deathless, volchitsa. Walk the same tale over and over, until you wear a groove in the world, until even if you vanished, the tale would keep turning, keep playing, like a phonograph, and you'd have to get up again, even with a bullet through your eye, to play your part and say your lines.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

“I know you loved both he and I, the way a mother can love two sons. And no one should be judged for loving more than they ought, only for loving not enough.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

“Men die. It's practically what they're for.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

“After love, no one is what they were before.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

“You go on. You just go on. There's nothing more to it, and there's no trick to make it easier. You just go on.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory

“You try to give away what you want yourself.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory

“Thou shalt not submit thy god to market forces.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“I don’t know humans, but I know fools. And I know the surest way to encourage fools to follow a wicked man is to tell them not to.”
― R. Lee Smith, The Last Hour of Gann

“Jesus Christ, really? How did you ever survive living with me as long as you did without having sex every other hour?” “With God’s aid alone,” he said seriously. “It was a terrible time.”
― R. Lee Smith, The Last Hour of Gann

“No,” the stranger agreed. “It is yours. Each man builds his own House and it will always be haunted.”
― R. Lee Smith, The Last Hour of Gann

“Human beings say, "It never rains but it pours." This is not very apt, for it frequently does rain without pouring. The rabbits' proverb is better expressed. They say, "One cloud feels lonely": and indeed it is true that the sky will soon be overcast.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down