Quotes with lore.

Today's line

Not Penny's boat.

— Charlie Pace, Lost

Floor G: Film & TV

Information desk

Staff pick
Here’s looking at you, kid.
— Rick Blaine, Casablanca
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Size matters not.
— Yoda, Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
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Better call Saul!
— Saul Goodman, Breaking Bad
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"More human than human" is our motto.
— Tyrell, Blade Runner
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Hasta la vista, baby.
— The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Floor 1: Video Games

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Thank you so much for to playing my game!
— Mario (Super Mario), Super Mario 64
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Take that!
— Phoenix Wright, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
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Democracy is non-negotiable!
— Liberty Prime, Fallout 3
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Heroes never die!
— Mercy, Overwatch
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Groovy!
— Earthworm Jim, Earthworm Jim

Floor 2: Books

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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
— Ender Wiggin, Ender's Game
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I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.
— John the Savage, Brave New World
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The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed subcategory.
— Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
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I would not like them here or there. I would not like them anywhere. I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them Sam I Am.
— Dr. Seuss, Green Eggs and Ham
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Where there's life there's hope, as my Gaffer used to say; and need of vittles, as he mostways used to add.
— Samwise Gamgee, The Two Towers

Floor 3: Comics & Anime

From the anime corner
Your next line is...
— Joseph Joestar, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
From the anime corner
Gomu Gomu no... Pistol!
— Monkey D. Luffy, One Piece
From the anime corner
Oh? You're approaching me?
— Dio Brando, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
From the anime corner
Barusu!
— Sheeta, Castle in the Sky
Fresh off the press
By the Hoary Hosts of Hoggoth!
— Doctor Strange, Strange Tales

Floor 4: Signings

From the signings board
The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.
— J.K. Rowling
From the signings board
And now go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make good art.
— Neil Gaiman, Address to the University of the Arts Class of 2012
From the signings board
The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought.
— Richard Feynman
From the signings board
My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
— Stephen Hawking
From the signings board
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
— Richard Feynman

Behind the ground floor's bead curtain: The Back Room

Opens after midnight. Cult and horror, after dark. Until then, browse the horror shelf.

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Listening booth: Moods

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Six lines about the moment things stop making sense — and what we do next.

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A name, a motto, a rallying cry. Six ways a few words can change the room.

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