Quotes from Jim C. Hines

Freedom of religion does not give you the right to physically or verbally assault people.

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.

Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit. [ Blog post, March 12, 2012 ]

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 ]

If we ruled the world, I guarantee you they never would have cancelled Firefly

The more we narrow the definition of beauty, the more beauty we shut out of our lives.

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.

Look at the shiny magic thing trying to kill us, isn't it awesome?

Every libromancer had a first book. Etched more sharply into my memory than my first kiss, this book had been my magical awakening.

Do you know why happily ever after is a lie?" Snow asked. "Because life is change.

That worked great! Thank you so much. What next?" "I don't know. I didn't expect you to live through it." "Oh.

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.

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.

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.

That is a trial I must face," Veka said. "No, that is a multiheaded snake thing, Jig snapped.

New rule: every fantasy author who doesn't treat horses like tireless hairy motorcycles automatically gets a Hugo.

Given the issues with certain SF/F trophies (like the World Fantasy Award, which is 1) butt-ugly and 2) based on one disgustingly racist dude), all trophies from this point forward should be made out of LEGO. That way if you don't like it, you can just make it into something else.

There was magic, and there was magic. Thanks to Gutenberg, I could no longer pull wands, potions, and light sabers out of books, but when it came to research, give me a well-stocked library and I was a goddamned Merlin.

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.

Two libriomancers had been disciplined for trying to get an early copy of the last Harry Potter book.

I see words, I read them.

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.

None of us live happily forever after. But we can choose to be happy today.

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.