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I'm tired of being lost and I'm tired of dying, so I'm going to try something different this time.

Because love does not do sums, but instead make choices, and then gives its all.

Welcome to the Information Jungle.

Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess. Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their consciences with the gift of survival.

Fight and live, fight and die, God waits for all.

God shapes us with a hammer of pain on an anvil of duty. I cannot imagine what shape we will be when He is finished.

Weak dogs become bones for other, stronger dogs.

When your teeth are gone, learn to like mush.

If we do not reach our hands will always be empty.

He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had

But sometimes when things go very wrong and even the highest are frightened, innocence is not enough for salvation.

It was strange how the future seemed tied inseparably to the past, so that both revolved through the present, like a great wheel ...

She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.

If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.

What, you don't have a sofa gun? I thought everyone did.

stupid people trying to manage me sends me into acute depression.

A wolf is clever-clever-clever, and they are as faithful as a debt unpaid.

We are none of us promised anything but the last breath we take.

He shouldn't have had to die."
"Nobody should have to die," Miriamele said slowly. "Especially while they're still alive.

A man whose wisdom is true does not sit in waiting for the world to come at him piece by piece for proving its existence!

The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.

Every time you open your mouth," Clarence said, "you just seem older and weirder.

So we face our final hours ... and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories.

Whatever my ancestors did to you, none of them consulted me.

Ho! We are being taunted by some sort of otherworldly fireflies. Someone fetch me my rifle!

The man who lives beside the water hole does not dream of thirst.

Wicked Tribe, Rooling Tribe! is the mejor hacker tribe. Too small, too fast, too scientific!

A proud man who could do more than he is asked to do. It is not good for the spirit.

As I said, Princess, I am a writer, and as all know, that is another name for a fool.

There is no such thing as an accident. That's what science is all about. ( ... ) There are only patterns we don't yet recognize.

I know, I know, numbers are not what you're interested in, except those of you who are engineers.

If you wish to carry a hungry weasel in your pocket, it is your choice.

and everywhere books, books, books,

Dying men think of funny things-and that's what we all are here, aren't we? Dying men.

A well-aimed spear is worth three.

Just get up. What's your name, kid?"
"G-man"
"I don't mean your codename down at the Dickhead Club. What does it say on your driver's license?

Welcome, Simon, to the world of those who are every day condemned to thinking and wondering and never ever knowing with certainness.

The road to Heaven is paved with bullshit and busy work.

Every time we tell a lie, the thing we fear grows stronger.

Every man is the hero of his own song.

See, vodka, that's drinking. Beer - well, beer is just getting the inside of your mouth wet.

Sometimes I talk about baseball just to annoy people who don't understand it.

Fear goes where it is invited.

But that is enough of such worrying. The river is waiting, and our hearts must be light, so we can faster travel.

Go down." It seemed obvious. "You have to go down before you can come out - that's how these things always work.

He was a figurehead - an aging CEO of his own family who only showed up for the board meetings and wondered how so much got done without him.

Tangaloor, fire-bright
Flame-foot, farthest walker
Your hunter speaks
In need he walks
In need, but never in fear.

When it falls on your head, then you are knowing it is a rock.

For all the things we've seen ... my goodness, the world still has more to show us, doesn't it?

Part of manhood, I am thinking, is to ponder one's words before opening one's mouth.

But our own selves are like pearls, created by layer after layer of present laid over past until the original thing is completely hidden.

Besides, there was always hope, wasn't there?

People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.

They were all becoming brothers, in the manner he had seen before: facing death together was the greatest of levelers.

Confident. Cocky. Lazy. Dead.

I pray that I lose my voice before my tongue ever shames me.

Honor is the only really good disguise for an occasional act of dishonor.

What is it you want, fairy woman?" he asked at last. "I have dead men to burn and a siege to finish." Ayaminu

Remember that each light between sunrise and sunset is worth dying for at least once.

But a mouse can be brave. Small as they are, though, they learn it is wiser not to challenge the cat.

Though talent is wonderful, dance is 80% work and 20% talent.

If the bears don't get you, it's home.

A man who will not listen carefully to advice honestly given is a fool. Of course, a man who blindly takes any advice he receives is a bigger fool.

You are only a prisoner when you surrender.

Piercing My Hearte there is A Golden Dagger; That is God

Piercing God's Hearte there is a Golden Needle; That is me

I guess you don't want to leave copies of Genocide Illustrated out for the UPS guy to see.)

Barrick could only stand and watch them go, alone with the tribe of incomprehensible strangers who lived now in his blood and his thoughts.

I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their plight that resonates.

And you, a king's daughter, who willingly gave herself to me - who brought me to her bed? Are you so high and pure?" She

What does that mean, 'real'? Amn't I real, you? If you cut me, do I not bleed? If you piss me off, will I not kick you up the arse?

Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce.

He turned up the car radio and punched buttons until he found something loud and thumpingly exultant, some piece of jolly stupidity from AC/DC.

You show her respect. That is a good thing," he said. "Too often it is that men think those who serve are doing it from inferiorness or weakness.

Never trust people that like to call things by initials, that's my philosophy.

For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.

That is the problem with rumors," said Avin Brone. "It is very hard to prove that things are not true - much more difficult than proving they are.

You see, that is the secret of history, little Briony - who tells the last story.

Experience came easily enough, learning how not to suffer would have proved much more practical.

Now I end my death song. I give my farewell to mountain and sky. It has been good to be alive.

Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery.

So that's what
one "yes," one "not sure," and one "I had had a dream about a bug.

That is what I hate about ruling and royalty, Simon. It is living, breathing people with whom a prince plays the games of statecraft.

I'm pretty much a cat that way. Scratch my stomach, and I'll purr at you, but I'll want to gut you with my claws even more than if you'd ignored me.