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21 " Dude, you are not equating being on that lame-ass Star Search wannabe show with hosting American Bandstand, are you? "
― Keith R.A. DeCandido , Bone Key (Supernatural, #3)
22 " ... I'd rather be prepared for one we don't have to fight than not be prepared for one we have to. "
― Keith R.A. DeCandido , Cycle of Hatred (World of WarCraft, #1)
23 " Who's the genius who thought replacing Dick Clark with Ryan Seacrest was a good idea? "
24 " Life was, in fact, cheap.If life was such a glorious, magnificent, wonderful thing, then it wouldn't be so easy to take it away.If life was a great gift, then he wouldn't be able to kill a fellow human being with one hand... "
― Keith R.A. DeCandido
25 " The trick is to recognize the flaw in yourself and work to correct it. "
26 " You're not mutation, you are evolution. "
27 " Then the image came back into his head. His wife Mary, pinned to the ceiling, blood pooling outward from her stomach, fire surrounding and consuming her. "
― Keith R.A. DeCandido , Heart of the Dragon (Supernatural, #4)
28 " I get that--but why replace him with this guy? I mean, Dick Clark did American Bandstand. All this guy's done is deny that he's gay. "
29 " He never feared anything again.Because he knew the secret.Life was cheap. "
30 " Love. You can learn all the math in the ’verse, but you take a boat in the air you don’t love, she’ll shake you off just as sure as the turning of worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughtta fall down, tells you she’s hurting ’fore she keens. Makes her a home. "
― Keith R.A. DeCandido , Serenity
31 " Il poter cambiare la nostra natura, non è esattamente questo ciò che ci distingue dagli animali? "
32 " Il mondo ci dice ciò che abbiamo bisogno di sapere nel momento in cui siamo pronti a saperlo, e non prima. Questa è la via delle cose "
33 " Malcolm: So me and mine gotta lay down and die... So you can live in your better world?Operative: I'm not going to live there. There's no place for me there... any more than there is for you. I'm a monster. What I do is evil. I have no illusions about it. But it must be done. "
34 " You all got on this boat for different reasons, but you all come to the same place. So now I’m asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. ’Cause as sure as I know anything, I know this: They will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground, swept clean. A year from now, ten, they’ll swing back to the belief that they can make people—better. And I do not hold to that. So no more running. I aim to misbehave. "
35 " Honor is served only by combat that elevates the spirit. Correct choices—of whom we fight, and why, and how we live—are paving stones. Taken together, they can make a road we travel to reach honor. "
― Keith R.A. DeCandido , The Klingon Art of War
36 " One of the lessons Deanna Campbell tried very hard to instill in her daughter was that a hunter’s best weapon wasn’t a shotgun. Nor was it holy water. It wasn’t even a Claymore that killed a vampire, a demon, or a family of ghouls. "
37 " I’m afraid any plans you have to kill him will have to wait—I believe he is the only person on the ship who can handle the maneuvering properly.” Klag grinned. “Pity, that.” “It’s all part of my cunning plan,” Leskit drawled from the pilot’s station. “I’m trying to make myself indispensable.” “Some of us would settle for useful,” Klag said, "
― Keith R.A. DeCandido , Honor Bound (Star Trek: I.K.S. Gorkon #2)
38 " They were handy to have around, Nate's little gang. They were that wonderful combination of talented and noble. The former was useful, while the latter made it so incredibly easy to poke them with a metaphorical stick. "
― Keith R.A. DeCandido , The Zoo Job (Leverage, #2)
39 " Dad had this story. A Marine and a Navy guy walk into a bathroom together. They both take a piss, and then the sailor goes to the sink. The Marine heads for the door, and the sailor says, ‘Hey—in the Navy they teach us to wash up after we take a leak.’ And the Marine turns around and says, ‘Yeah? Well, in the Marines they teach us not to piss on our hands. "
― Keith R.A. DeCandido , Nevermore (Supernatural, #1)
40 " Currently he was going through the entire Nero Wolfe series by Rex Stout, He'd just finished Murder by the Book and was in the process of downloading Triple Jeopardy to his e-reader when the alarm went off. "