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  • #1
    Terry Pratchett
    “The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort.”
    Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic

  • #2
    Terry Pratchett
    “He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe.
    Which was going to be hard, because there wasn't one.”
    Terry Pratchett, Mort

  • #3
    Terry Pratchett
    “Tʜᴇʀᴇ's ɴᴏ ᴊᴜsᴛɪᴄᴇ, ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ's ᴊᴜsᴛ ᴍᴇ.

    —Death”
    Terry Pratchett, Mort

  • #4
    Terry Pratchett
    “It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.”
    Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
    tags: self

  • #5
    Terry Pratchett
    “I don’t know what to do,” he said. “No harm in that. I’ve never known what to do,” said Rincewind with hollow cheerfulness. “Been completely at a loss my whole life.” He hesitated. “I think it’s called being human, or something.”
    Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

  • #6
    Nick Hornby
    “He was distraught, of course: he was just the kind of idiot who could only understand what things meant by doing them first.”
    Nick Hornby, Funny Girl

  • #7
    Terry Pratchett
    “Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment.”
    Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

  • #8
    George R.R. Martin
    “History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

  • #9
    George R.R. Martin
    “Kind? How boring that would be. I aspire to be wicked.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

  • #10
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

  • #11
    Sarah Vowell
    “I have a similar affection for the parenthesis (but I always take most of my parentheses out, so as not to call undue attention to the glaring fact that I cannot think in complete sentences, that I think only in short fragments or long, run-on thought relays that the literati call stream of consciousness but I still like to think of as disdain for the finality of the period).”
    Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli

  • #12
    Sarah Vowell
    “That story is proof of the theorem that then as today in Chicago, the mysterious equation of whiskey plus music equals what can only be called happiness.”
    Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli

  • #13
    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practice before doing it for real.”
    Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

  • #14
    Terry Pratchett
    “Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.”
    Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

  • #15
    Terry Pratchett
    “People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.”
    Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

  • #16
    Terry Pratchett
    “Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped.”
    Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

  • #17
    Stephen  King
    “If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone”
    Stephen King, Wizard and Glass

  • #18
    Stephen  King
    “But storytelling always changes time. At least it does in my world.”
    Stephen King, Wizard and Glass

  • #19
    Joseph Fink
    “Remember that misuse of language can lead to miscommunication, and that miscommunication leads to everything that has ever happened in the whole of the world.”
    Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

  • #20
    Joseph Fink
    “In terms of tacos, she was doing fine.”
    Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

  • #21
    Stephen  King
    “The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the good byes that tell us we're still alive.”
    Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla

  • #22
    Stephen  King
    “Ka works and the world moves on.”
    Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla

  • #23
    Terry Pratchett
    “The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.”
    Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

  • #24
    Terry Pratchett
    “Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?”
    Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
    tags: magic

  • #25
    Stephen  King
    “Death, but not for you, gunslinger. Never for you. You darkle. You tinct. May I be brutally frank? You go on.”
    Stephen King, The Dark Tower

  • #26
    Stephen  King
    “May you find your Tower, Roland, and breach it, and may you climb to the top!”
    Stephen King, The Dark Tower

  • #27
    Stephen  King
    “You needn’t die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served.”
    Stephen King, The Dark Tower

  • #28
    Stephen  King
    “Anyone who doesn't think the imagination can kill is a fool.”
    Stephen King, The Dark Tower

  • #29
    Terry Pratchett
    “Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.”
    Terry Pratchett, Eric

  • #30
    Terry Pratchett
    “Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.”
    Terry Pratchett, Eric



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