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“The greatest revenge is not taken with a blade, it is that done by taking your enemy’s taunts and throwing them back in their face.”
― R.J. Barker, The Bone Ships

“People don’t change, they only get better at hiding themselves.”
― Alec Hutson, The Shadows of Dust

“Some victories were worth any cost; others were not worth any cost.”
― Rob J. Hayes, Pawn's Gambit

“Well, you will never again be who you are right now. Change is as inevitable as time. So, you might as well get comfortable with who you're going to be and stop mourning who you were.”
― Rob J. Hayes, Pawn's Gambit

“I like to let them talk things out, but fact isn’t a democratic process; if a thing isn’t true it isn’t true, even if everybody votes that it is.”
― K.J. Parker, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City

“wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it.”
― K.J. Parker, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City

“I mention this because that’s how the world changes. It’s either so quick that we never know what hit us, or so gradual that we don’t notice.”
― K.J. Parker, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City

“Common sense dictates that any voice you hear inside your head must be just you, thinking; so, if you know it’s just you and you know you’re basically an idiot, what possesses you to do what the stupid voice tells you?”
― K.J. Parker, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City

“I tend to keep my thoughts to myself, which is why I scowl a lot,”
― K.J. Parker, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City

“Self-betterment is the rarest form of ambition.”
― Zack Argyle, Voice of War

“It is a great poison, to know you have a destiny and that everything you do is right by default.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Expert System's Brother

“Change is the path life takes”
― Ken Scholes, Lamentation

“Watch for the ones who leave your mouth hanging open. Study them, find out what they love and what they fear. Dig the treasure out of their soul and hold it to the light.' He leaned in even closer now, so that Neb could smell the wine on his breath. 'Then Be like them.”
― Ken Scholes, Lamentation

“Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

“The biggest lies we save for ourselves.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

“Few things worth having can be got easily.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

“Ignorance was a form of control.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Smoke and Stone

“Structure leads to stagnation. Control leads to abuse.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Smoke and Stone

“Culture, like religion, depends on the indoctrination of children before they are able to question or think for themselves.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Smoke and Stone

“Your child doesn’t owe you loyalty or obedience. You owe your child love and understanding, owe it unconditionally, and if you love them strongly enough, eventually that love may be returned.”
― Nick Cutter, The Deep

“Just because the wolf pack fears your sling doesn’t mean you stop carrying stones.”
― Ed McDonald, Blackwing

“The problem with authority is that if you leave it lying around, others will take it away from you.”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit

“But then, war is about taking the future away from people.”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit

“All communication is manipulation,” Jedao said. “You’re a mathematician. You should know that from information theory.”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit

“The point of war is to rig the deck, drug the opponent, and threaten to kneecap their family if they don't fold.”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit

“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“WHEN WE SEEK TO RULE ONLY OURSELVES, WE ARE EACH OF US KINGS.”
― Nicholas Eames, Kings of the Wyld

“Watch this!” he said, and what happened next might have been extraordinarily funny were their lives not at stake. But they were, so it wasn’t.”
― Nicholas Eames, Kings of the Wyld