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“I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person.”
― Bill Murray

“Man starts thinking this late in life, no previous experience or proper guidance, there's no telling where it could lead.”
― Richard Russo

“Dafyd is asking the Carryx about the execution of the old Human librarian. The Carryx replied:

"There was no punishment. There is no punishment. That one was given great honor, being touched by the Sovran. But it was saved by an animal. There is no place in the moieties for a Carryx that was saved by an animal. Do you understand?”
― James S.A. Corey, The Mercy of Gods

“Snow White's pulsar shakes the night sky like iron shoes dancing.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Six-Gun Snow White

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

“How do you tell an angel she’s wrong for calling you a monster?”
― Jason Anspach, Wayward Galaxy 5

“I pity the man who does not respect the power of women.”
― John A. Heldt, River Rising

“History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Ants and neurons are democracies, that old political saw the Mandate works so hard to discredit. You have different groundswells of popular opinion gathering momentum, and picking up new adherents like a snowball, until one urge or impulse reaches a critical mass, after which the whole—the nest, the brain—adopts that tabled motion wholeheartedly. And here’s where the hive aspect comes in, because those elements which were rooting for the alternatives give in with good grace and wave flags for the winner. There’s no holdout of political grousers claiming someone else won the election. The whole institution acts in unison the moment that threshold is crossed. And that’s us. No demagogues having to harangue the crowd, no self-interested cult leader talking everyone into servitude. Just a group acting together, for everyone’s best benefit.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Alien Clay

“The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself. (Zosima’s advice to Fyodor Pavlovich)”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
― Frida Kahlo

“Only you can decide what breaks you, Cursebreaker. Only you.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White