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“If Tolstoy were alive today and working at Panopticon Insurance, he'd say that all insurance companies are the same, then throw himself through an eighteenth story window and plunge to his death in a hail of glass and shattered dignity" (70).”
― Paul Neilan

“In my village, one of our priests says that love between men is a great sin- the other argues that nothing at all is sinful except weak ale, overdone meat, and building a fire in any way but his.”
― Peter Beagle

“She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks. ”
― Sherman Alexie, Ten Little Indians

“I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me warm and always the only thing keeping me alive. Books are the best and worst defense.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

“Iced coffee, on a hot day, can perform miracles.”
― Lish McBride, Necromancing the Stone

“The trip back home was uneventful and over in only twelve words.”
― Jasper Fforde, One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

“...I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated it into five new languages.”
― Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

“I'm sure it's not all hot buttered crumpets out there in the breathing world of asphalt and heartbeats.”
― Jasper Fforde, One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

“I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“That's the trouble with living things. Don't last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And then just memories. And the memories fade and blend and smudge together.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Adults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Nothing I had drunk had ever tasted like that before: rich and warm and perfectly happy in my mouth. I remembered that milk long after I had forgotten everything else.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“The thing about late-night cookery was that it made sense at the time. It always had some logic behind it. It just wasn’t the kind of logic you’d use around midday.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

“The river, it's banks as yet untamed wandered languidly through thickets of rush and papyrus. Ibises waded in the shallows; in the deeps hippos rose and sank slowly like pickled eggs.”
― Terry Pratchett

“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
― Douglas Adams

“He loved the fact that if you got your customer laughing then you had their money in your pocket”
― Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam

“All it takes is for people to believe and I am no longer just an artefact put together by clever engineers. I am an idea, a something made of nothing, whose time has come to be. Some may even call me "Goddess”
― Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam

“the queen appeared as innocent as one of those mountains which smoke a little, and then one day end up causing a whole civilization to become an art installation”
― Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam

“The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“I knew these elements were intended for me and me alone. There were no endearments, but I understood in part because of this restraint. He knew how much I hated words like love.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“She said not to worry-- that she had done so many things she regretted and perhaps we should both agree that we had sprung fully formed from the head of Zeus in about the year 2000”
― Brian Kimberling