R. Jenkins

“Round and round in circles we go, clutching at successes we never grasp, endlessly tripping over the same old failures. Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“You get scared, Shivers?” A pause, that eye of his glinting as the sun peeped through the branches. “Used to. All the time.” “What changed?” “Got my eye burned out o’ my head.” So much for calming small talk. “Reckon that could change your outlook.” “Halves it.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes

“Someday, Locke Lamora,” he said, “someday, you’re going to fuck up so magnificently, so ambitiously, so overwhelmingly that the sky will light up and the moons will spin and the gods themselves will shit comets with glee. And I just hope I’m still around to see it.”
“Oh please,” said Locke. “It’ll never happen.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora