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"There weren’t any fairy tales in the streets around me. If there was ever a Cinderella, her glass slippers shattered under her weight and she limped home bleeding from the ball."
"A martyr's just a casualty with really good PR."
"It is what it is. Isn't that how these things always go? They are what they are. We just get to cope."
"She told the truth as she saw it, and she died for it. I came along for the ride, and I lived. It wasn't worth it. But it was the truth, and it was what had to happen."
"Failure to die is always appreciated."
"Etienne gave me lessons. Three of them. Then he said I was a menace and refused to teach me anything more for fear that I’d slice his head off."
"How many miles to Babylon? Three-score and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, there and back again. If your heels are nimble and light, You will get there by candle-light"
"That’s where the dreams end: with the realization that it doesn’t matter where I am, whether I think I’m a woman or a fish or something in-between. I’ve never really left the pond. I still can’t breathe."
"See, Quentin, that’s why you should wear a cup before trying to assassinate someone."
"One man's trash is another man's treasure is a third man's raw materials for their planet-buster earthquake machine."
"I just find it interesting that kids apparently used to cry when Bambi's mother died. George and I both held our breaths, and then cheered when she didn't reanimate and try to eat her son."
"This is what I do know: A lie, however well-intended, can't prepare you for reality or change the world... To tell the truth is to provide armament against a world too full of cruelties to be defeated with simple falsehoods... It seems to me we owe the world--more, we owe ourselves--the exchange of comfort for the chance that maybe the truth can do what people always say it can. The truth may, given the opportunity, set us free."
"Never tempt fate. It plays for keeps."
"Nothing is impossible to kill. It's just that sometimes after you kill something you have to keep shooting it until it stops moving"
"Librarianship is a form of heroism. It’s just not as flashy as swords and dragons."
"Follow the rules whenever possible. That makes it a lot more surprising when you break them."
"Crazy gets all the knives."
"Nobody cares if you're an idiot, as long as you're a useful one."