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1 " When the world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos. "
― Charlie Jane Anders , All the Birds in the Sky (All the Birds in the Sky, #1)
2 " Do you think the occasional witch burning helps to weld society together? "
3 " A society that has to burn witches to hold itself together is a society that has already failed, and just doesn't know it yet. "
4 " Why would anybody be a Satanist, anyway? I don’t get it. You can’t believe in Satan without believing in God, and then you’re just picking the wrong side in a big mythic battle thing. "
5 " Loneliness was a full-body sensation, an anti-exhilaration, from his core outward. "
6 " Love was the most susceptible to random failure of all human enterprises. "
7 " That’s the definition of evil right there: not faking it like everybody else. "
8 " That’s the definition of evil right there: not faking it like everybody else. Because all of us crazy fuckers can’t stand it when someone else lets their crazy show. "
9 " What was worse, being crazy or being evil? "
10 " Self-awareness paradoxically requires an awareness of the other. "
11 " And she felt like they, the two of them, right here, right now, could make something that defied tragedy. "
12 " Laurence felt a weird combination of shame and rage, as though he'd grown another new body part just in time to get punched in it. "
13 " Booze really was medicinal, after a near-death experience. Holding a drink in both hands and letting it corrode the topmost layer of his mouth and throat, Laurence felt a spiritual relationship with Bushmills. "
14 " He went to make coffee. Because when you have just heard about the possible transformation of the human race into feral monsters you need to be doing something with your hands and creating something hot and comforting for another person. "
15 " All this time as a mad scientist why didn't he have a shrink ray or stun gun in his closet somewhere? He had been wasting his life. "
16 " The sun still hadn't risen. Maybe it never would. Maybe the sky was sick of these endless costume changes: Casting off cloak after cloak, but never revealing what it wore under all those cloaks. "
17 " He had already figured out a great universal truth, that people never asked for documentation of anything, as long as you asked them for documentation first. "
18 " Loose ends are cool... Loose ends mean that you are still living your life. The person who dies with the most loose ends wins. "
19 " Actually, Laurence is hardly ever home; this is the first I’ve seen him in weeks. Which can only mean one thing: Red Dwarf marathon. "
20 " You know... no matter what you do, people are going to expect you to be someone you're not. But if you're clever and lucky and work your butt off, then you get to be surrounded by people who expect you to be the person you wish you were. "