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“There’s something brittle in me that will break before it bends.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

“In the end it seems we're just toys, easy to break and hard to mend.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

“We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.”
― Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

“What others believe is not my concern, unless they attempt to force it on me.”
― Richard K. Morgan, The Dark Defiles

“Her hair had fallen out of its ribbons and her knee was scraped. She was exactly everything a little girl should be.”
― Roger Bellini, Neverland's Library

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Facing an enemy on the battlefield took courage, but you had your friends beside you. Standing alone against your friends, that was a different kind of courage.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half the World

“A man who gives all his thought to doing good, but no thought to the consequences …” Father Yarvi lifted his withered hand and pressed its one crooked finger into Brand’s chest. “That is a dangerous man.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half the World

“You keep an oath not for the oath but for yourself.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half the World

“Madmen and fools feel no fear. Heroes fear and face the danger anyway.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a War

“Keep that hate alive in your heart, lad. It’ll warm you when nothing else will.”
― Brian Keene, King of the Bastards

“Give me your bow,” I said to the Nuban.
He frowned. “You’re going to shoot him?”
The guard laughed, but there wasn’t an ounce of humour in the Nuban. He was getting to know me.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

“Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

“We all of us carry the seed of evil in our hearts and souls,” she told him. “Even the purest, even the most holy. It is part of the human condition, born into us. We cannot root it out. All we can do—at best—is prevent it from germinating.”
― David Gemmell, The Swords of Night and Day (Drenai Tales, #11)

“What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree...”
― Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

“I remember the lightning in the air, and the lovers bidding goodbye to each other in the streets, and I can tell you what I think. We went to war because going to war is fun, because there's something in the human breast that trills at the thought, although perhaps not the reality, of murdering its fellows in vast numbers. Fighting a war ain't fun - fighting a war is pretty miserable. But starting a war? Hell, starting a war is better than a night floating on daeva's honey.”
― Daniel Polansky, Low Town

“The Questioner was repacking his tools with a vague air of disappointment. Deciding my legs were steady enough to carry me, I propped myself to my feet, then turned towards my would-be torturer. 'You got a cigarette?' I asked.
He shook his head, the burned red crown of his hood bobbing. 'I don't smoke,' he said without taking his eyes off his work. 'That stuff will kill you.”
― Daniel Polansky, Low Town

“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“Easy money is never easy.”
― David Dalglish, A Dance of Cloaks

“And how can man die better than by facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his gods.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools

“A warrior fears the battle he missed. More than any fight he can make his own, he fears the fight that’s gone, that ended without him, that no feat of arms can change.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“Mountains are pretty at a distance, but my advice is to never let them get to be more than scenery.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools

“I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.”
― Steve Martin

“The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes

“We’re all bound for the Sky Road, sooner or later. How we walk it depends on how we walked in the world beneath. So you don’t sit on your arse whining and waiting for your death to come find you. You go looking for it. Track the fucker down, force the issue. You walk, Archidi, you find the strength to walk, and you keep walking till you drop. Now some men don’t have that strength, so you have to lend it to them.”
― Richard K. Morgan, The Dark Defiles

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

“Kudj wonder if perhaps Mother right. Kudj wonder if civility only as strong as weakest person participating.”
― Sam Sykes, The City Stained Red

“The best defense to inquiry was semi-coherent rants and accusations.”
― Sam Sykes, The City Stained Red