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“I guess you don’t want to leave copies of Genocide Illustrated out for the UPS guy to see.)”
― Tad Williams, Sleeping Late On Judgement Day

“What, you don’t have a sofa gun? I thought everyone did.”
― Tad Williams, Sleeping Late On Judgement Day

“See, vodka, that’s drinking. Beer—well, beer is just getting the inside of your mouth wet.”
― Tad Williams, Sleeping Late On Judgement Day

“Every time you open your mouth,” Clarence said, “you just seem older and weirder.”
― Tad Williams, Sleeping Late On Judgement Day

“I’m pretty much a cat that way. Scratch my stomach, and I’ll purr at you, but I’ll want to gut you with my claws even more than if you’d ignored me.”
― Tad Williams, Sleeping Late On Judgement Day

“I haven't met that many women, human or angelic, who actually like to drive. In my experience they seem to be much more pragmatic about the whole thing than we are. For most males, driving is an extension of their masculinity; they have little fantasy scenarios going all the time - races, chases, and dramatic combat with other drivers. Females, on the other hand, generally seem to view driving as something you do to get somewhere. I know, crazy.”
― Tad Williams, The Dirty Streets of Heaven

“You’re evil, you know that?” I said.
She grinned and shook her head. “Chaotic Neutral, sugar.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.”
― They Might Be Giants

“I wish someone had just told me the truth right up front, as soon as I was old enough to understand it. I wish someone had just said: “Here’s the deal, Wade. You’re something called a ‘human being.’ That’s a really smart kind of animal. Like every other animal on this planet, we’re descended from a single-celled organism that lived millions of years ago. This happened by a process called evolution, and you’ll learn more about it But trust me, that’s really how we all got here. There’s proof of it everywhere, buried in the rocks. That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super-powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky? Total bullshit. The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling one another for thousands of years. We made it all up. Like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. “Oh, and by the way … there’s no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny. Also bullshit. Sorry, kid Deal with it.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“I would argue that masturbation is the human animal's most important adaptation. The very cornerstone of our technological civilization. Our hands evolved to grip tools, all right—including our own. You see, thinkers, inventors, and scientists are usually geeks, and geeks have a harder time getting laid than anyone. Without the built-in sexual release valve provided by masturbation, it's doubtful that early humans would have ever mastered the secrets of fire or discovered the wheel. And you can bet that Galileo, Newton, and Einstein never would have made their discoveries if they hadn't first been able to clear their heads by slapping the salami (or "knocking a few protons off the old hydrogen atom"). The same goes for Marie Curie. Before she discovered radium, you can be certain she first discovered the little man in the canoe.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“You could shove it up your ass and pretend you're a corn dog."

COURTESY VIOLATION-RESPONSE MUTED-VIOLATION LOGGED”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“So I'm supposed to believe you're one of those mythical guys who only cares about a woman's personality, and not about the package it comes in?”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth. Existentially speaking.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“She was old and crankily conservative in the way only old liberals could be.”
― John Scalzi, Lock In

“Making people change because you can’t deal with who they are isn’t how it’s supposed to be done. What needs to be done is for people to pull their heads out of their asses. You say ‘cure.’ I hear ‘you’re not human enough.”
― John Scalzi, Lock In

“Did she tell you I set puppies on fire, too?” Vann asked. “She did not,” I said. “It may have been implied.”
― John Scalzi, Lock In

“A number is random if the simplest way to express it is by writing it down.”
― Cory Doctorow, Homeland

“Utopia is impossible; everyone who isn’t a utopian is a shmuck.”
― Cory Doctorow, Homeland

“It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.”
― Cory Doctorow, Homeland

“You're a big one,[...] a tall drink of water, but I got to tell you, you don't look too bright. I got a son, stupid as a man who bought his stupid at a two-for-one sale, and you remind me of him.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“He had spent a lot of time thinking about himself, and had come to the conclusion that he was definitely not self-absorbed.”
― Scott Meyer, Off to Be the Wizard

“You know, the less you talk, the more people assume that what you’re not saying is important.”
― Scott Meyer, Off to Be the Wizard

“As sweet as it feels, I can't lie here forever curled up in a big ball of fuck-the-world.”
― Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead

“Enemies will kill you with a knife in the back. Friends will kill you with kindness. Either way you're dead.”
― Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead

“Don't drink too much."
"When I can spell out your name in shot glasses, I'll stop."
"I'll have to get a shorter name."
"I'll have to forget how to spell it.”
― Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead

“Don't talk. Kill it."
That might be the sweetest thing a woman's ever said to me on a first date.”
― Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead

“They can talk shit about each other behind the others' backs, but when it comes down to it, money is the one true race and everyone down here is the color of greenbacks and as tall as mountains.”
― Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead

“You can take the boy out of the Devil but not the Devil out of the boy”
― Richard Kadrey, Kill City Blues