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“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...”
― Neil Gaiman

“Over all the millennia, only you have ever loved me, Thor. Only you have ever looked at me with affection in place of condescension. Why, then, am I killing you, and not the others? Because you stopped.”
― Robert Rodi, Loki

“How often have I warned you against fraternizing with technology?”
― Gail Carriger, Etiquette & Espionage

“Soap understood her. Soap would always understand.”
― Gail Carriger, Waistcoats & Weaponry

“originalist” philosophy that advocates interpreting the Constitution by what the words meant when written “stems from two features of the constitution: (1) that one of its principal purposes is to constrain those who make and enforce laws so as to protect the rights retained by the people, and for this reason, (2) it is put in writing,” meaning all law is constrained by the document itself to protect individual rights.”
― Stephanie A Jirard, Criminal Law and Procedure: A Courtroom Approach

“the U.S. Supreme Court decides an issue—for example, interpreting the Constitution to determine a woman had the right in consultation with her doctor to terminate a pregnancy—that decision cannot be overturned or modified by any state or federal law, only by the U.S. Supreme Court itself.8”
― Stephanie A Jirard, Criminal Law and Procedure: A Courtroom Approach

“Marbury and other justice of the peace hopefuls sued Madison to get the Supreme Court to issue writs of mandamus forcing Jefferson to deliver the commissions.”
― Stephanie A Jirard, Criminal Law and Procedure: A Courtroom Approach