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  • #1
    Steven Erikson
    “Show me a god that does not demand mortal suffering.
    Show me a god that celebrates diversity, a celebration that embraces even non-believers, and is not threatened by them.
    Show me a god that understands the meaning of peace. In life, not in death.”
    Steven Erikson, The Bonehunters

  • #2
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “That is not dead which can eternal lie,
    And with strange aeons even death may die.”
    Howard Phillips Lovecraft, The Nameless City

  • #3
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #4
    Bram Stoker
    “Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
    Bram Stoker

  • #5
    William Shakespeare
    “This thing of darkness I
    Acknowledge mine.”
    William Shakespeare, The Tempest

  • #6
    William Shakespeare
    “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
    William Shakespeare, The Tempest

  • #7
    Margaret Weis
    “If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear the pain of loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.”
    Margaret Weis, Dragons of Winter Night

  • #8
    Margaret Weis
    “Do not enter with defeat in your heart for that is the first victory of evil.”
    Margaret Weis, Dragons of Winter Night

  • #9
    Margaret Weis
    “Est Sularus oth Mithas”—“My honor is life.”
    Margaret Weis, Dragons of Autumn Twilight

  • #10
    Margaret Weis
    “Hope is the denial of reality. - Raistlin”
    Margaret Weis

  • #11
    George R.R. Martin
    “I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.”
    George R.R. Martin

  • #12
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #13
    R. Scott Bakker
    “No soul moves alone through the world, Leweth. Our every thought stems from the thoughts of others. Our every word is but a repetition of world spoken before. Every time we listen, we allow the movements of another should to carry our own...NO one's soul moves alone, Leweth. When one love dies, on must learn to love another.”
    R. Scott Bakker, The Darkness That Comes Before

  • #14
    R. Scott Bakker
    “Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing.”
    R. Scott Bakker, The Darkness That Comes Before

  • #15
    Graham McNeill
    “Ignorance and fear create the gods, enthusiasm and deceit adorn them, and human weakness worships them.”
    Graham McNeill, False Gods

  • #16
    Terry Pratchett
    “Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
    Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

  • #17
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #19
    “Δεν ελπίζω τίποτα, δε φοβάμαι τίποτα, είμαι λεύτερος!”
    Ν.Καζαντζάκης

  • #20
    Plato
    “According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.”
    Plato, The Symposium

  • #21
    Horatius
    “Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)”
    Horace, The Odes of Horace

  • #22
    Euripides
    “Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.”
    Euripides

  • #23
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #24
    Rudyard Kipling
    “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
    Rudyard Kipling

  • #25
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #26
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #27
    George R.R. Martin
    “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

  • #28
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Elend: I kind of lost track of time…
    Breeze: For two hours?
    Elend: There were books involved.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

  • #29
    Joe Abercrombie
    “Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.”
    Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself

  • #30
    Pierce Brown
    “I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.”
    Pierce Brown, Red Rising



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