"That worked great! Thank you so much. What next?" "I don't know. I didn't expect you to live through it." "Oh."

--

Source : Jim C. Hines (2006). “Goblin Quest”, p.192, Penguin

Jim C. Hines

“Militant feminists, I take my hat off to them, they don't like that.”
“I would not know the thing I sought until I found it. It was both something within and something without myself. Within, it was like the buried memory of a name that will not come to the tongue for utterance.”

Source : Jay Saunders Redding (1992). “A Scholar's Conscience: Selected Writings of J. Saunders Redding, 1942-1977”, p.44, University Press of Kentucky
“Habent sua fata libelli et balli [Books and bullets have their own destinies]”
“You're not traveling if you already know everything.”

Source : Erica Bauermeister (2011). “Joy For Beginners”, p.68, Penguin
“The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him.”
“I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.”
“You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.”

Source : Charlaine Harris (2009). “Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.29, Penguin
“I will always be there in the wings saying, 'You need to be good to people. You need to take your work seriously. You need to have integrity. You need to work with what you've got.”

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