Slmstanley > Slmstanley's Quotes

“It turns out executing a deliberate, convincing distraction is a lot harder than being a distraction accidentally.”
― Martha Wells, Platform Decay

“That is very horrifying and I want to go home," I said, although I pronounced it, "Ah. I see.”
― T. Kingfisher, What Stalks the Deep

“Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

“Last year's fashions were all lace and ruffles. I refused to add a single ruffle, which means that I may continue wearing this gown in style *and* that I did not spend last year looking like a birthday cake. An enormous savings in both money and dignity.”
― T. Kingfisher, A Sorceress Comes to Call

“Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

“If you love books enough, books will love you back.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

“A Sibyl is a door shaped like a girl.”
― Catherynne Valente

“Sometimes, contempt for the person you don't want to become can get you through those times when courage otherwise falters.”
― Nicholas Atwater, Echoes of the Imperium

“I had always thought of the past like a place: an old house you could go back into if only the door hadn't been locked behind you. But we were the house, and we were the door, and we were the lock.”
― Taran Hunt, The Unkillable Princess

“People are big enough to hold more than one certainty at the same time.”
― Seanan McGuire

“Humans claim that the human body is "beautiful", but if you go outside naked, they arrest you immediately, so what does that tell you?”
― Alex Hirsch, The Book of Bill