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121 " They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question what was not questioned. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle, #6)

122 " My father learned his disinterest under the guise of masculinity. Boys don’t cry. There are whole disciplines, institutions, rubrics in our culture which serve as categories of denial.
Science is such a category. The torture and death that Heinrich Himmler found disturbing to witness became acceptable to him when it fell under this rubric. He liked to watch the scientific experiments in the concentration camps "

― Susan Griffin , A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War

123 " That's what drives science though: trying to find out the way things are, the way they were, and the way it really works. If that is your goal, then you want to make sure that your information is accurate, and if it's not, then it doesn't matter how much you liked that old urban legend or fictional factoid you once bought into. You will discard it, and be embarrassed by it, seeking instead for truth. "

― Aron Ra

124 " He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head. "

― John Green , An Abundance of Katherines

125 " Of all things, I liked books best. "

― Nikola Tesla

126 " . . . I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories.
I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Ocean at the End of the Lane

127 " For a moment I was distracted. Books always did that to me... I liked the creamy pages, the smell of ink, all the secrets locked inside. "

― Elizabeth C. Bunce , StarCrossed (Thief Errant, #1)

128 " He liked women with little butts and big tits? Someone had played with one too many barbie dolls as a kid. "

― Kelley Armstrong , Stolen (Women of the Otherworld, #2)

129 " A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much other fiction. By contrast, the audience for an obscure novel is largely composed of people who read a lot. That means the least popular books are judged by people who have the highest standards, while the most popular are judged by people who literally do not know any better. An American who read just one book this year was disproportionately likely to have read ‘The Lost Symbol’, by Dan Brown. He almost certainly liked it. "

130 " The library was a little old shabby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling she had about church. She pushed open the door and went in. She liked the combined smell of worn leather bindings, library past and freshly inked stamping pads better than she liked the smell of burning incense at high mass. "

― Betty Smith , A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

131 " She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself. "

― Frances Hodgson Burnett

132 " She liked getting hold of some book... and keeping it to herself, and gnawing its contents in privacy, and pondering the meaning without sharing her thoughts with any one, or having to decide whether the book was a good one or a bad one. "

― Virginia Woolf , Night and Day

133 " Victor of course never failed to fire a monster joint on these underground missions. And there he would sit reading. He liked how those books made him feel, the books and the weed, his brain humming with knowledge, an odd and lovely sort of expansion feeling these threads of words that stretched across continents and decades, a sort of feeling that he, too, was stretched and flattened, his brain spread like a map across the world. "

― Sunil Yapa , Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist

134 " And yeah, I had to go to therapy to get over my childhood issues and work through my shit but you know what I found when I was done? I still liked having my ass smacked, my hair pulled and being told to get on my knees like a good little girl because that’s my fucking right as a woman. And screw anyone that has a problem with it." -Beth Anderson, The Missing Orchid "

135 " In the beginning the queen had been a courageous and fair-minded princess very much liked by all, but unfortunately she grew up and became a frightened adult, as adults tend to be. She started loving efficiency and avoiding conflict. As adults do. "

― Fredrik Backman , My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

136 " I liked being needed by him. I liked making his food for him, running his baths for him, massaging his muscles. I liked caring for him, taking care of him. It made me feel like I had a real purpose. It felt so good to make him feel even the littlest bit better. "

― Taylor Jenkins Reid , Forever, Interrupted

137 " I’ve never liked the term ‘actor’.” Barron spoke slowly, joining hands with the cast members to his left and right. The rest of them formed a circle, also holding hands, and he continued. “Seriously now, is anyone here ‘acting’? Is anyone here pretending? “Me, I’m a theater director. One hundred percent, all the time. I’m not pretending, or acting, or trying to fool anyone. This is what I do, and I give it my all—just like you. I look around me, and I don’t see a single phony. I see people who give their hearts, their minds, and their very lives to being serious performers on the stage. In the last weeks I’ve watched every one of you give up the easy life to come here and bust a gut to make this show a reality. “That’s why I call you performers. Not actors—performers. Because when it’s time to prepare, you work out every nuance of a role. When it’s time to step in front of the crowd, you reach out and pull them in with both hands. When it’s time to say your lines, you deliver them with skill and meaning. That’s performance. And there’s nothing phony about that. There’s nothing pretend about that. There’s no acting that will take the place of that. “And so that’s my wish for you tonight: Have a great performance. You’ve done the work, you’re ready, and now it’s time to show off. Have fun out there, gang. Perform.” --Jerome Barron's opening night pep talk to the cast of Death Troupe "

138 " ...you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are; that was why you liked them in the first place. "

― Terry Goodkind

139 " When you move as much as I have...you know how it ends. You promise to stay in touch with people, but it doesn't work out. It never does. And you forgot about what the friendship used to be like, why you liked that person. And I hated it. And I just didn't want to do it again. Not with you. "

― Morgan Matson , Since You've Been Gone

140 " Alan," cried I, " what makes ye so good to me? What makes ye care for such a thankless fellow?" Deed, and I don't, know" said Alan. " For just precisely what I thought I liked about ye, was that ye never quarrelled:—and now I like ye better! "