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Faramir: I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.

Gaiman: A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

Gaiman: I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I found joy in the things that made me happy.

Gaiman: Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren’t.

Gaiman: When adults fight children, adults always win.

Gaiman: Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisors.

Gaiman: I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

Gaiman: I liked myths. They weren't adult stories, and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.

Gaiman: I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

Maxine: Witches don't make cakes; they make magic.

Gaiman: Books were safer than other people anyway.

Gaiman: Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.

Maigret: It was a poker game where lives were at stake, and everyone seemed able to see their opponents’ cards.

Simenon just used “lugubrious” for the third time.

Nurse Lee: Good midwifery is a combination of art, science, experience, and instinct.

Maigret: Maybe deep down Lognon would have regretted forfeiting the title of Inspector Hard-Done-By. He needed to moan and groan, needed to feel he was the unluckiest man on earth.

The author just used the word "lugubrious" for the second time.

Geralt: Forgive us, friend. Dandelion has experienced a serious personal tragedy, and he still hasn’t gotten over it. He’s trying to mask his sorrow, dejection, and disgrace by being witty.

Maigret: It is rare to encounter people who do not play a role, even when they are alone. Most men feel the need to watch themselves living, to listen to themselves speaking.

Inspector Maigret: Forces of nature don’t care about the damage they cause.

Maigret: There are people who are capable of absolutely anything rather than taking a tumble.

Maigret: No one's entirely unhappy. Everyone clutches on to something and creates a sort of happiness.

Vernoux: Most people think the insane always act as if they are insane, in other words illogically and irrationally. But as a matter of fact, it is often the contrary. The insane have their own logic. The challenge is to find out what that logic is.

Dandelion: Your constant sarcasm is becoming annoying ... Ah, Geralt, I forgot to ask, how is it with you and Yennefer?
Geralt: It isn't.
Dandelion: I understand.
Geralt: No, you bloody don't.

Simenon: Maigret felt a kind of sadness as he always did when a little of the past evaporated.

Istredd: I never expected I’d have to fight a witcher to the death over a woman.
Me: I wouldn’t fight anyone to the death over someone who betrayed me without the slightest remorse. If they will do it with you, they will do it to you.