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1 " Let's go commit senseless acts of science. "
― Seanan McGuire , Half-Off Ragnarok (InCryptid, #3)
2 " (Australia. The only continent designed with a difficulty rating of “ha ha fuck you no.”) "
3 " ALL GLORY TO THE SCIENCE RULES OF SCIENCE! "
4 " Being smart isn't good enough. You need to be educated, and you need to be open-minded, and you need to remember that what you don't know can most definitely hurt you. "
5 " Rules only matter if everyone understands them, agrees to them, and can be trusted not to break them. Bearing these irrefutable facts in mind, rules never matter at all. "
6 " Lindworms are a sign of a healthy ecosystem,” I said, straightening. “Now let’s get out of here before the healthy ecosystem eats us. "
7 " If you find something you truly love, stick with it. There's nothing else in this world that will make you half as happy. There's nothing else that will make you half as miserable, either, but you can't have one without the other. "
8 " A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. It's much easier to be brave when you don't believe that the monster under your bed is real. "
9 " Expectations are dangerous things. They've probably killed more people than any creature or cryptid you care to name. "
10 " I told them you almost certainly were not a serial killer, and that they were being horribly sexist by assuming that of the two of us, only you were capable of committing murder. That may have been a tactical error—it got me rather a lot more questioning that I hadn’t exactly been planning on.” “Well, yes. It’s usually unwise to tell the police you could be a serial killer if you really, really wanted to. "
11 " Try your best. That's always been good enough for the people who love you. "
12 " Hell hath no fury like a centuries-old organisation of zealots scorned. "
13 " Yes, that’s a brilliant idea. Choose the career path most likely to lead to an early, painful death, and you’re sure to find job satisfaction. "
14 " Love doesn't care what you want. Love doesn't care if it's convenient. Love pursues its own agenda, and there's no bullet in the world that can take it down. More's the pity. "
15 " Grandma married him because he was the first man she’d ever met who wasn’t affected by her telepathy. This is the sort of thing that Internet dating sites never have a field for. "
16 " Once upon a time there was a little boy who lived with monsters, and the monsters swore that they would never hurt him, because even monsters dream of living happily ever after. "
17 " Respect is rarely the thing that gets you killed. "
18 " It was easier than I expected, maybe because I was too angry and too afraid to really pay attention to what I was doing. Things are always easy when you refuse to let yourself remember how dangerous they are. "
19 " At least that would be a new disgusting swamp experience, instead of a disgusting swamp experience I'd already had several times that day. "
20 " Things exist for a reason. Nature doesn’t mess around with things that don’t have a purpose. Sometimes those things come into competition. Sometimes they edge each other out. Invasive species have been transforming the world in their own image for as long as animals have been capable of moving from one place to another. Humanity has hastened the process, since we’re the first animals to build airplanes and container ships, but we didn’t start it, and it won’t stop when we’re gone. "
