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"Anyway, it's like with bikes,' said the first speaker authoritatively. 'I thought I was going to get this bike with seven gears and one of them razorblade saddles and purple paint and everything, and they gave me this light blue one. With a basket. A girl's bike.''Well. You're a girl,' said one of the others.'That's sexism, that is. Going around giving people girly presents just because they're a girl."

"When you meet someone, and you find that they are prejudiced against your kind, it might be your chance, not to confirm, but to be the one to finally change their mind."

"Every living object has to change every moment just to live."

"Change is the rule. Permanence is an illusion."

"Losing your job gives you the opportunity to make your life count."

"If you don't like the solution, change the problem."

"Dwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire damp could suddenly explode they'd seen the need for gods as the sort of supernatural equivalent of a hard hat. Besides, when you hit your thumb with an eight-pound hammer it's nice to be able to blaspheme. It takes a very special and strong-minded kind of atheist to jump up and down with their hand clasped under their other armpit and shout, "Oh, random-fluctuations-in-the-space-time-continuum!" or "Aaargh, primitive-and-outmoded-concept on a crutch!"
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"For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American."

"My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life."

"Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice."

"Courage comes in different forms. There's strength--that's the muscle. But love's the heart. When you put them together, you can do anything."

"Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward."

"Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and the light are the keenest weapons."

"Sex might satisfy, food might fuel, love might sustain, but without coffee, what is the point?"

"I'm going to treat myself to one of these as a reward for not knocking himself unconscious with a skillet."

"When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you-even with your weaknesses, your flaws, everything starts to click into place. And if you can talk to her, and she listens, if she makes you laugh, and makes you think, makes you want, makes you see who you really are, and who you are is better, just better with her, you'd be crazy not to want to spend the rest of your life with her. (Carter Maguire)"
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