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“Abraham," he said. "I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend."
"And I to see you dead.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“Living men are bound by time... Thus, their lives have an urgency. This gives them ambition. Makes them choose those things that are most important, cling more tightly to that which they hold dear. Their lives have seasons, and rites of passage, and consequences. And ultimately, an end. But what of a life with no urgency? What then of ambition? What then of love?”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln," laughed Davis, pointing north. "You're in Mississippi now.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.”
― James Herriot , All Creatures Great and Small

“Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous. We're more concerned with not looking scared than with judging right.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

“Tell them stories.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

“Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

“Malcolm stared back calmly, though he felt anything but calm: if that monkey had a name, it might be Malice, he thought.”
― Philip Pullman, La Belle Sauvage

“She must start believing in impossible things, for impossible things kept appearing before her eyes.”
― Christina Henry, Alice