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“I love my job when I'm not there.”
― Paul R. Linde, Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
― Henry Adams

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.”
― Philip Dick

“What’s a Mennonite?” Vance asked. “Amish with blenders.”
― Christopher Moore, The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove

“On the radio, turned low, Reba sang of hard times with the full authority of a cross-eyed redheaded millionaire.”
― Christopher Moore, The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove

“He didn’t understand religion. It was like heroin or golf: He knew a lot of people did it, but he didn’t understand why.”
― Christopher Moore, Island of the Sequined Love Nun

“Tuck watched the sun bubble into the ocean. Columns of vertical cumulus clouds turned to cones of pink cotton candy, then as the sun became a red wafer on the horizon, they turned candy-apple red, with purple rays reaching out of them like searchlights. The water was neon over wet asphalt, blood-spattered gunmetal—colors from the cover of a detective novel where heroes drink hard and beauty is always treacherous.”
― Christopher Moore, Island of the Sequined Love Nun

“Multiple Personality Barbie. She’s elegant, she’s fashionable, and she’s the reason that Ken has no genitals! Have fun, but remember to hide the sharp stuff!”
― Christopher Moore, Island of the Sequined Love Nun

“Just stories. You and me, everybody, we’re a set of stories, and what those stories are is what makes us what we are.”
― Charles de Lint, The Very Best of Charles de Lint

“There’s stories and then there’s stories,” he said, interrupting her. “The ones with any worth change your life forever, perhaps only in a small way, but once you’ve heard them, they are forever a part of you. You nurture them and pass them on and the giving only makes you feel better.”
― Charles de Lint, The Very Best of Charles de Lint

“Before he had lost his sight, the maester had loved books as much as Samwell Tarly did. He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Rum,” said Kona. “Too much hostility in dat buzz. Rum come from da cane, and cane come from slavin’ the people, and dat oppression all distilled in de bottle and come out a man mean as cat shit on a day.”
― Christopher Moore, Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

“When did chicken become like plutonium anyway, for Christ’s sake? You can’t let it touch you or it’s certain fucking death. And eggs and hamburgers kill you unless you cook them to the consistency of limestone! And if you turn on your fucking cell phone, the plane is going to plunge out of the sky in a ball of flames? And kids can’t take a dump anymore but they have to have a helmet and pads on make them look like the Road Warrior. Right? Right? What the fuck happened to the world?”
― Christopher Moore, Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

“Imagine what it would be like to have a bookshelf filled only with books that you really love. Isn’t that image spellbinding? For someone who loves books, what greater happiness could there be?”
― Marie Kondō, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

“Like it or not, the road to Hell is paved with sustainable bamboo flooring.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Doomed

“Please note, you future dead persons, whenever you shut off a fluorescent bulb or a cathode ray tube and see a residual photon-green glow, that glow is trapped human ectoplasm. Ghosts are forever being snared in lightbulbs.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Doomed

“it’s like he’s opening the covers of a book, but a book that did what books always promised to do and never actually quite did: get you out, really out, of where you were and into somewhere better.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

“The memories were safe, sealed forever in amber.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

“An infamous political prison required a revolution as much as a revolution required an infamous political prison.”
― Tom Rob Smith, Agent 6

“I wonder how the Cubs are doing.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“Follow your dreams, Bailey,” she says. “Be they Harvard or something else entirely. No matter what that father of yours says, or how loudly he might say it. He forgets that he was someone’s dream once, himself.” Bailey”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“A sunset is always more beautiful when it is covered with irregularly shaped clouds, because only then can it reflect the many colors out of which dreams and poetry are made. Pity”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“A policy of moving out and doing it, and asking forgiveness afterward, is much better than a policy of asking permission and having it denied.”
― Richard Preston, The Hot Zone

“Dirk Moeller didn’t know if he could fart his way into a major diplomatic incident. But he was ready to find out.”
― John Scalzi, The Android's Dream