{"quotes":[{"text":"They intend to make people's very appetites the next weapon of uncountable destruction. They intend that your people will lust themselves into oblivion in front of little boxes of changing light. Addictive light. A light that makes you feel like you live a life, when all you really do is eat what the light tells you to eat and squirt pee and pump poo. And watch the changing light!","author":"Robert Stikmanz","tags":["humor","inspirational","light","lust","science","science-fiction-fantasy","tv"],"id":21231,"author_id":"Robert+Stikmanz"},{"text":"As for peace, it was never free and laws were made to be broken. Peacemaker or lawbreaker, someone, somewhere always paid the price no matter what side of the words they were on.","author":"Virginia McKevitt","tags":["adventure","adventure-stories","fantasy","fiction","mystery","paranormal-romance","science-fiction-fantasy"],"id":67851,"author_id":"Virginia+McKevitt"},{"text":"David could tell, by looking at her face as she read, whether or not the story contained in the book was living inside her, and she in it, and he would recall again all that she had told him about stories and tales and the power that they wield over us, and that we in turn wield over them.","author":"John Connolly","tags":["mystery","science-fiction-fantasy"],"id":67976,"author_id":"John+Connolly"},{"text":"Why are our people going out there,” said Mr. Boggis of the Thieves’ Guild.Because they are showing a brisk pioneering spirit and seeking wealth and … additional wealth I na new land,” said Lord Vetinari.“What’s in it for the Klatchians?” said Lord Downey.“Oh, they’ve gone out there because they are a bunch of unprincipled opportunists always ready to grab something for northern,” said Lord Vetinari.“A mastery summation, if I may say so, my lord,” said Mr. Burleigh. The Patrician looked down again at his notes. “Oh, I do beg your pardon, I seem to have read those last to sentences in the wrong order….","author":"Terry Pratchett","tags":["patriotism","point-of-view","science-fiction-fantasy","war"],"id":80022,"author_id":"Terry+Pratchett"},{"text":"‎'Sarge, mr. Nurd here is threatening to turn me to jelly.'really?' said Sarge. 'what flavor?","author":"John Connolly","tags":["book","gates","humor","john-connolly","science-fiction-fantasy"],"id":103792,"author_id":"John+Connolly"},{"text":"He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.","author":"Terry Pratchett","tags":["humour","perceptive","science-fiction-fantasy"],"id":139277,"author_id":"Terry+Pratchett"},{"text":"From my Facebook Page: 'You spend the first 50 years acquiring and the second 50 years getting rid of.","author":"Mary R. Woldering","tags":["historical-fiction","science-fiction-fantasy"],"id":155630,"author_id":"Mary+R.+Woldering"},{"text":"Even the best laid plans turn to hell when exposed to reality.","author":"Michael Anthony","tags":["dystopian","fantasy","fiction","historical-romance","science-fiction-fantasy"],"id":168959,"author_id":"Michael+Anthony"},{"text":"Dust is not a constant. There’s not a fixed quantity that has always been the same. Conscious beings make Dust—they renew it all the time, by thinking and feeling and reflecting, by gaining wisdom and passing it on. And if you help everyone else in your worlds to do that, by helping them to learn and understand about themselves and each other and the way everything works, and by showing them how to be kind instead of cruel, and patient instead of hasty, and cheerful instead of surly, and above all how to keep their minds open and free and curious…Then they will renew enough to replace what is lost through one window. So there could be one left open.","author":"Philip Pullman","tags":["adventure","childrens","classics","fantasy","fiction","religion","science-fiction","science-fiction-fantasy","steampunk","young-adult"],"id":171048,"author_id":"Philip+Pullman"},{"text":"My death granted immortality.With one look, I knew he’d be my undoing…” Forgotten, book #1 of the Fate Trilogy.","author":"Sarah J. Pepper","tags":["fantasy","fate","god","immortal","kiss","love","mythology","paranormal","romance-novels","science-fiction-fantasy","young-adult-fantasy"],"id":171599,"author_id":"Sarah+J.+Pepper"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}