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“As we count up the memories from one journey, we head off on another. Remembering those who went ahead. Remembering those who will follow after. And someday, we will meet all those people again, out beyond the horizon.”
― Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles

“Humans who think we don't understand them are the stupid ones.”
― Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles

“We always thought the robot apocalypse would be fleets of killer drones and war mecha the size of apartment blocks and terminators with red eyes. Not a row of mechanised checkouts in the local Extra and the alco station; online banking; self-driving taxis; an automated triage system in the hospital. One by one, the bots came and replaced us.”
― Ian McDonald, Luna: New Moon

“I don't think anyone ever goes into a war without the nagging feeling that there might have been some other way.”
― Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Dark Force Rising

“When dragons fight, everyone burns.”
― Ian McDonald, New Moon

“I'm still here; I got your back. If you're falling, I'm here to catch you. But I want to know what branches you tried to reach for on your way down. I want to know that you tried to help yourself.”
― Helena Dea Bala, Craigslist Confessional: A Collection of Secrets from Anonymous Strangers

“Surely you must understand that the means are no less important than the ends. A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.”
― Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Dark Force Rising

“I've got a really bad feeling about this, Han.”
― Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Dark Force Rising

“While 140 characters may not seem like a lot, we will never run out of things to say.”
― Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

“Knights who go charging after fire-breathing dragons out of some sense of duty to protect their fair maidens die in vain.”
― Hideyuki Kikuchi, A Wind Named Amnesia / Invader Summer

“That's why you must go. Why you must study many things. So you can tell them, tell the people who have forgotten everything, that for better or worse, humankind has created all of these things.”
― Hideyuki Kikuchi, A Wind Named Amnesia / Invader Summer

“Nature takes no notice of the thoughts of men.”
― Hideyuki Kikuchi, A Wind Named Amnesia / Invader Summer

“Death did not frighten her. In those years she had tended the dying, witnessed their demise, and laid out the dead. Death by sickness. Death in childbirth. Death by accident. Death by malice, once or twice. Death as the welcome visitor to great age.”
― Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River

“The Thames that goes north, south, east, and west, to finally go east, that seeps to one side and the other as it moves forward, that goes slow as it goes fast, that evaporates into the sky whilst meandering to the sea, is more about motion than about beginnings. If it has a beginning, it is located in a dark inaccessible place. Better study where it goes than where it comes from.”
― Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River

“It was laconic, but it was true. As soon as you started to put more words in, you came to unreason.”
― Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River

“Rita did not look away. Part of her job was to help people face what was coming. Dying could be lonely. A nurse was often easier to talk to than family.”
― Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River

“Let me spell it out for you. When a man's got something he don't give tuppence about and another man wants it enough, thruppence will usually do it.”
― Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River

“Death and memory are meant to work together. Sometimes something gets stuck and then people need a guide or companion in grief.”
― Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River

“And now, dear reader, the story is over. It is time for you to cross the bridge once more and return to the world you came from. This river, which is and is not the Thames, must continue flowing without you. You have haunted here long enough, and besides, you surely have rivers of your own to attend to?”
― Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River

“Humans could have been designed to be rational, to calmly weigh up pros and cons and to sensibly calculate the best option in every situation. But there must have been a rushed design meeting or tight production deadline, because humans actually operate via an unholy mix of borderline irrationality and impulse.”
― Neil Hughes, The Shop Before Life

“Let's just focus on surviving today, shall we?”
― Neil Hughes, The Shop Before Life

“To me, it always seemed unambitious to simply accept how the world is, without asking questions.”
― Neil Hughes, The Shop Before Life

“Sometimes what you do is less important than the fact you're doing something.”
― Neil Hughes, The Shop Before Life

“Sometimes people need to be shown the consequences of their actions.”
― Bradley P. Beaulieu, When Jackals Storm the Walls

“I can't choose any one thing. Why do I have to live only one life and be resigned to doing one thing?”
― Chuck Wendig, Wanderers

“Here’s how we do things in America: We identify a problem, then we promptly ignore it until it’s not just biting our ass, but it’s already eaten the right cheek and has started on the left.”
― Chuck Wendig, Wanderers

“Somehow, the disappearance of coffee feels worse than the disappearance of all humankind.”
― Chuck Wendig, Wanderers

“And better still, reference librarians served well in the role that the internet never did: They were the perfect bouncers at the door of bad information. Or, put differently, they were the best vectors to transmit truth.”
― Chuck Wendig, Wanderers

“Like an inconsequential school of fish, Meryam mused, flitting about as if anything they did mattered.”
― Bradley P. Beaulieu, When Jackals Storm the Walls

“A map is only one story. It is not the most important story. The most important story is the one a people tell about themselves.”
― Nicole Chung, A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home