"You go to the ballet and you see girls dancing on their tiptoes. Why don't they just get taller girls?"

“Listen to the fool's reproach! It is a kingly title!”

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”

“I'm frightened of nothing anymore," answered Fell simply, "except lies. For they're the real killers.”

“Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run out of analogies in the thirty-first century.”

Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.41, Atlantic Books Ltd

“Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.”

“Comedy and drama are less ageist media for women than stuff like light entertainment. But in TV or film, women have to be more pleasing on the eye than men.”

“I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.”

“She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.”