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“Steep paths build muscles, know-how, and empathy, an easy one, only indifference.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Age of Empyre

“But . . . not all bad things are bad for you, and not all good things are good.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Age of Empyre

“All too often, that which we are most certain of is that which we are most wrong about; and that which we are wrong about can change everything.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Age of Empyre

“Remember, it’s easier to believe an outlandish lie confirming what you suspect than the most obvious truth that denies it,”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Age of Myth

“Problem with looking too much at the future, is you can get caught up in enjoying or anticipating what’s down the road. Sometimes you have to live in the now, bring that future to pass.”
― Wildbow, Twig

“Those types of people tended to underestimate the tenacity of the well and truly fucked up individuals of this world.”
― wildbow, Worm

“It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“The desire for knowledge shapes a man.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other is to lend.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“If you are going to impose your will on the world, you must have control over what you believe.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“Power is okay, and stupidity is usually harmless. Power and stupidity together are dangerous".”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“all men make their own gods and those gods tell them only what they want to hear.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Girl and the Mountain

“I’d rather spend a year making new memories than a thousand wandering around in the same old ones.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Girl and the Stars

“We are victims of our first friendships. They are the foundations of us. Each anchors us to our past.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Girl and the Stars

“All actions have risks. Most inactions even more so.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, Heaven's River

“Retired just means I don’t have a job description, and I can work on what I want now.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, Heaven's River

“Some problems simply do not yield to reductionist techniques, particularly those that are dependent on emergent phenomena.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, Heaven's River

“There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. You didn't take on step, then find yourself in a completely new location. You first took a little step off a path to avoid some rocks. For a while, you walked alongside the path, but then you wandered out a little way to step on softer soil. Then you stopped paying attention as you drifted farther and farther away. Finally, you found yourself in the wrong city, wondering why the signs on the roadway hadn't led you better.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Emperor's Soul

“Control yourself, she told herself forcibly. Become someone who can deal with this. She took a deep breath and let herself become someone else. An imitation of herself who was calm, even in a situation like this. It was a crude forgery, just a trick of the mind, but it worked.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Emperor's Soul

“Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, no man would know your heart.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Emperor's Soul