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  • #91
    Cory Doctorow
    “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

  • #92
    Cory Doctorow
    “Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different.”
    Cory Doctorow, Little Brother
    tags: humor

  • #93
    Cory Doctorow
    “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

  • #94
    Cory Doctorow
    “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

  • #95
    Cory Doctorow
    “Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.”
    Cory Doctorow, Little Brother

  • #96
    Cory Doctorow
    “Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.”
    Cory Doctorow, Little Brother

  • #97
    Cory Doctorow
    “What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!”
    Cory Doctorow, Little Brother

  • #98
    Cory Doctorow
    “When in problem, or in doubt, run in cirles, scream and shout”
    Cory Doctorow, Little Brother
    tags: humor

  • #99
    Cory Doctorow
    “The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail.”
    Cory Doctorow, Little Brother

  • #100
    Cory Doctorow
    “So close the book and go. The world is full of security systems. Hack one of them.”
    Cory Doctorow, Little Brother

  • #101
    Cory Doctorow
    “Internet Explorer, Microsoft’s crashware turd that no one under the age of forty used voluntarily.”
    Cory Doctorow, Little Brother

  • #102
    Cory Doctorow
    “This sounds like you’re saying that national security is more important than the Constitution.”
    Cory Doctorow, Little Brother

  • #103
    Neil Gaiman
    “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

  • #104
    Neil Gaiman
    “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

  • #105
    Neil Gaiman
    “I have no plans to love you," said Coraline. "No matter what. You can't make me love you.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #106
    Neil Gaiman
    “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

  • #107
    Neil Gaiman
    “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

  • #108
    Neil Gaiman
    “Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #109
    Neil Gaiman
    “There's a but, isn't there?" said Coraline. "I can feel it. Like a rain cloud.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #110
    Neil Gaiman
    “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

  • #111
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “I'll show you how," Peter said. "Stop hiding behind your ignorance.”
    Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

  • #112
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “She's not stupid. She just never lets her mind out.”
    Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

  • #113
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “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

  • #114
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “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

  • #115
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “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

  • #116
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.”
    Diana Wynne Jones, Castle in the Air

  • #117
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!”
    Diana Wynne Jones, Castle in the Air

  • #118
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “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

  • #119
    George R.R. Martin
    “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

  • #120
    George R.R. Martin
    “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



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