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#91

“I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.”
― Cory Doctorow, Little Brother

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#92

“Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different.”
― Cory Doctorow, Little Brother

tags: humor

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#93

“It's our goddamed city! It's our goddamed country. No terrorist can take it from us for so long as we're free. Once we're not free, the terrorists win! Take it back! You're young enough and stupid enough not to know that you can't possibly win, so you're the only ones who can lead us to victory! Take it back!”
― Cory Doctorow, Little Brother

tags: freedom, rebellion, terrorism

45 likes

#94

“Take it from someone who's read the Wikipedia entry: this is how the Ottoman Empire was won: madden horsemen fueled by lethal jet-black coffee-mud.”
― Cory Doctorow, Little Brother

19 likes

#95

“Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.”
― Cory Doctorow, Little Brother

tags: names, technology

17 likes

#96

“Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.”
― Cory Doctorow, Little Brother

tags: abnormal, normalcy

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#97

“What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!”
― Cory Doctorow, Little Brother

tags: banning, computers, funny, humor, humour, lightning, terrorism, umbrellas

6 likes

#98

“When in problem, or in doubt, run in cirles, scream and shout”
― Cory Doctorow, Little Brother

tags: humor

7 likes

#99

“The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail.”
― Cory Doctorow, Little Brother

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#100

“So close the book and go. The world is full of security systems. Hack one of them.”
― Cory Doctorow, Little Brother

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#101

“Internet Explorer, Microsoft’s crashware turd that no one under the age of forty used voluntarily.”
― Cory Doctorow, Little Brother

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#102

“This sounds like you’re saying that national security is more important than the Constitution.”
― Cory Doctorow, Little Brother

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#103

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

45223 likes

#104

“What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?'
'Cats don't have names,' it said.
'No?' said Coraline.
'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: cats, names, self-knowledge

2232 likes

#105

“I have no plans to love you," said Coraline. "No matter what. You can't make me love you.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

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#106

“Nothing’s changed. You’ll go home. You’ll be bored. You’ll be ignored. No one will listen to you, really listen to you. You’re too clever and too quiet for them to understand. They don’t even get your name right.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

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#107

“I was kidnapped by aliens, they came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by wearing a wig and laughing in a foreign accent, and I escaped.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: coraline, gaiman, neil

189 likes

#108

“Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: coraline, mirrors, trust

307 likes

#109

“There's a but, isn't there?" said Coraline. "I can feel it. Like a rain cloud.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: literary

120 likes

#110

“It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't hurt it almost always did. She shook her head.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

106 likes

#111

“I'll show you how," Peter said. "Stop hiding behind your ignorance.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

tags: how-to, ignorance, learning

44 likes

#112

“She's not stupid. She just never lets her mind out.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

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#113

“She stood with her nose up, sniffing delightedly. It was the delicious mildewy fragrance of old books. Hundreds of them, she saw, looking round the room. Books were lined up on shelves on all four walls, stacked on the floor, and piled on the desk, old books in leather covers mostly, although some of the ones on the floor had newer looking colored jackets.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

22 likes

#114

“I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Castle in the Air

tags: dog, humor

397 likes

#115

“I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Castle in the Air

tags: animals, cheat, humor, people

222 likes

#116

“Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Castle in the Air

tags: inspirational, praise, right

192 likes

#117

“You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Castle in the Air

tags: abdullah, kitten

60 likes

#118

“Tell me of this Wizard Howl of yours". Sophie's teeth chattered but she said proudly, "He's the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he'd only had time, he would have defeated that djinn. And he's sly and selfish and vain as a peacock and cowardly, and you can't pin him down to anything.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Castle in the Air

34 likes

#119

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: identity

12850 likes

#120

“Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: bravery, courage, fear

7265 likes

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