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1. "The sonic screwdriver from Doctor Who might have worked, having been canonically established as being ineffective on wood, but nobody had ever figured out how to use the controls on the blasted thing." ~ Jim C. Hines
2. "I have seen John Scalzi's pose-off picture. There are no words. There is only inarticulate whimpering." ~ Jim C. Hines
3. "When Theolyn died, the humans had built an enormous pyre and placed his body at the center. How was [Veka] supposed to know humans cremated their dead instead of cooking them? She had figured it out quickly enough, but not before Jimar and his ilk had spotted her standing at the pyre, fork in hand." ~ Jim C. Hines
4. "Of course, once you had yanked Conan the Barbarian's sword out of a book to fight off a rabid weresquirrel, "impossible" lost a lot of its punch." ~ Jim C. Hines
5. "Instead of Debbie Does Dallas, we get Gandalf Guts Goblins." ~ Jim C. Hines
6. "The life of an adventurer appeared to consist of roughly six parts boredom to one part stark terror, or so it seemed to Jig." ~ Jim C. Hines
7. "Droga do chwaly zaczyna sie od jednego kroku. Podobnie jak droga na szafot." ~ Jim C. Hines
8. "Zadna noc nie jest tak ciemna ani zadna sytuacja tak rozpaczliwa, zeby boska interwencja nie mogla pogorszyc tego stanu." ~ Jim C. Hines
9. "Jeff [the werewolf] cocked his head and stared at me like I had just turned into a were-rabbit. Admittedly, this was a tremendous improvement over wanting to tear me limb from limb. "Well, shave my ass and call me a poodle. How the hell did you manage that?" ~ Jim C. Hines
10. "None of us live happily forever after. But we can choose to be happy today." ~ Jim C. Hines
11. "Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth, to reach through." ~ Jim C. Hines
12. "I like big books and I cannot lie.You other readers can't denyThat when a kid walks in with The Name of the WindLike a hardbound brick of win.Story bling.Wanna swipe that thingCause you see that boy is speedingRight through the book he's reading.I'm hooked and I can't stop pleading.Wanna curl up with that for ages,All thousand pages.Reviewers tried to warn me.But with that plot you hookedMe like Bradley.Ooh, crack that fat spine.You know I wanna make you mine.This book is stella 'cause it ain't some quick novella." ~ Jim C. Hines
13. "The more we narrow the definition of beauty, the more beauty we shut out of our lives." ~ Jim C. Hines
14. "1. Bullying is not okay. Period.2. Freedom of religion does not give you the right to physically or verbally assault people.3. If your sincerely-held religious beliefs require you to bully children, then your beliefs are fucked up." ~ Jim C. Hines
15. "That worked great! Thank you so much. What next?""I don't know. I didn't expect you to live through it.""Oh." ~ Jim C. Hines
16. "Your religious beliefs are your business. They are not and should not be the basis for law. If you use them as justification to discriminate against others, don't be upset when others decide you're an asshole."[Blog post of July 26, 2011]" ~ Jim C. Hines
17. "...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church." ~ Jim C. Hines
18. "Every libromancer had a first book. Etched more sharply into my memory than my first kiss, this book had been my magical awakening." ~ Jim C. Hines
19. "My name is Isaac Vainio," I said. "You smashed my library. Prepare to die."Everything went better with Princess Bride references." ~ Jim C. Hines
20. "But 'I worked hard on this' doesn't exempt you from criticism. Those harsh reviews aren't about anyone being out to get me. It's not an Authors vs. Reviewers thing. It's people taking the time to express their opinions because they care about this stuff."[Us vs. Them vs. Grow the Hell Up (Blog post, September 1, 2013)]" ~ Jim C. Hines
21. "I see words, I read them." ~ Jim C. Hines
22. "Any factual errors that remain are entirely the fault of Bob, who snuck into the offices at DAW to try to sabotage my book. I hate that guy." ~ Jim C. Hines
23. "Do you know why happily ever after is a lie?" Snow asked. "Because life is change." ~ Jim C. Hines
24. "This presents a serious question." They both looked at me. "What's that?" asked Lena. "Whether to start you off with a Doctor Who marathon or dive straight into Firefly." ~ Jim C. Hines
25. "That is a trial I must face," Veka said."No, that is a multiheaded snake thing, Jig snapped." ~ Jim C. Hines
26. "If we ruled the world, I guarantee you they never would have cancelled Firefly" ~ Jim C. Hines
27. "Torches," Porak ordered."This is dumb," Jig grumbled as one of the others handed out torches. "Why not run ahead and warn any intruders that we're coming? Maybe we should sing, too, in case they're blind." ~ Jim C. Hines
28. "New rule: every fantasy author who doesn't treat horses like tireless hairy motorcycles automatically gets a Hugo." ~ Jim C. Hines
29. "A hundred feet underground, in a fake field beneath a fake sky, with an ogre slaughtered like no more than a rat to a cat, and he sends us to search for the unusual." ~ Jim C. Hines
30. "Which reminds me, there's a vampire hand in your freezer's ice maker." Seeing my aghast expression, she added, "Don't worry. I double-bagged it." ~ Jim C. Hines
31. "I was amused to note that even vampires obeyed the unwritten rules of elevator etiquette." ~ Jim C. Hines
32. "Two libriomancers had been disciplined for trying to get an early copy of the last Harry Potter book." ~ Jim C. Hines
33. "Isaac: "Besides, is it really stealing if you're stealing from an asshole?"Lena: "I'd have to double-check, but I don't think the criminal code includes an asshole clause." ~ Jim C. Hines
34. "Plans were for adventurers. He preferred the goblin approach. Blind panic might not work all the time, but at least it saved you the stress of planning." ~ Jim C. Hines
35. "A cop friend downstate had once described what he called the 'pucker effect,' the body's automatic response when something just wasn't right. He wasn't talking about the lips; the puckering happened farther south, and every cop learned to trust that instinct." ~ Jim C. Hines
36. "Pac-Man?" The beast looked up at me, oversized fangs giving it an expression that straddled the line between deadly and dopey. A string of drool waved pendulum-like from the jaw, pushing it firmly into the latter category. "When he was a puppy, he tried to eat a ghost," Pallas explained." ~ Jim C. Hines
37. "Watch your step," said Slash.Jig stopped, fully expecting to be shot, poisoned, crushed, or maybe all three at the same time. "What is it now?" Slash pointed to a pile of brown, slimy goo in the center of the tunnel. "Hairball." ~ Jim C. Hines

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