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“I am aware that humans believe they are the sole owners of this curse, but all creatures love, Dieter. Love is our one shared madness, our one shared burden. All creatures are driven against sense by it, and even the lowest ant will die madly for her queen.”
― B. Justin Shier, Zero Sum

“Who are you?"
"The devil," she said. "The devil in love.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Club Dumas

“Why did women always believe that talking about a problem would fix it? Some issues were corpses. Hot air made them fester and rot and spread their disease to everything else.

Better to bury it and move on.”
― Brent Weeks, Shadow's Edge

“I belong to no one. On this night, I swear to you that I will rise above everything you’ve ever taught me. I will become a force that this world has never known. I will come into such power that none will dare hurt me again.”
― Marie Lu

“But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn't about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine.
Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others - even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.”
― Jim Butcher, Changes

“He who kills from afar knows nothing at all about act of killing. He who kills from afar derives no lesson from life or from death; he neither risks nor stains his hands with blood, nor hears the breathing of his adversary, nor reads the fear, courage, or indifference in his eyes. He who kills from afar tests neither his arm, his heart, nor his conscience, nor does he create ghosts that will later haunt him every single night for the rest of his life. He who kills from afar is a knave who commends to others the dirty and terrible task that is his own.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Sun Over Breda

“The truth is so dear to me that if Orholam stood on one side and truth on the other, I would turn my back on my creator himself.”
― Brent Weeks, The Blinding Knife

“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family. ”
― Jim Butcher

“This is where the wise man turns away. This is where the holy kneel and call on God. These are the last miles, my brothers. Don't look to me to save you. Don't think I will not spend you. Run if you have the wit. Pray if you have the soul. Stand your ground if courage is yours. But don't follow me.

Follow me, and I will break your heart.”
― Mark Lawrence, Emperor of Thorns

“I stay sane because I am sane! I am sane because I am willing to stand up and fight, when others would lie down and die. I will stand before you right now, and swear by my Prophetic Stamp: No More! No more violence, no more bloodshed, no more ceaseless, needless death—not one pico more! By God, I will not stand still for rampant death, nor let it pass me by! Not at my post. Not on my watch! I will throw my own life into the danger zone and stand between our beloved homes and the war’s worst desolation—and no other life shall pay! For I am a soldier . . . and that place is mine!. Ia”
― Jean Johnson, Damnation

“We become the masks we wear.”
― Brent Weeks, Shadow's Edge

“Let me take a moment to point out the glaringly obvious. Humans are idiots.”
― B. Justin Shier, Zero Sight

“There is no cheating in war; there are only survivors and victims.”
― Brent Weeks, The Blinding Knife

“It's a beautiful thing to refuse to forget...”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Fencing Master: A Deadly Arcane Secret and a Beautiful Woman Draw a Master into the Shadowy Politics of Madrid

“There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.”
― Jim Butcher, Death Masks

“There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell you any different.”
― Jim Butcher, Fool Moon

“Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by no apparent rules.... We don't fear dreams, but we do fear madness, and death terrifies us.”
― Brent Weeks, Shadow's Edge

“I end up saving the world, just to save you”
― Hiroya Oku

“Sometimes lies are most necessary with our friends.”
― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

“Si te lo pidiese, ¿matarías a Terah de Graesin? logan
—Sin dudarlo.
—Si no te lo pidiera, ¿lo harías de todas formas?
—Sí.
—¿Lo has estado planeando?
—Sí.
—¡Maldita sea, Kylar! Ahora lo sé.
—¿Pues para qué lo preguntas?
—Para eliminar la excusa. ¿Se puede gobernar con justicia después de
haber conseguido el trono injustamente?
—Buena pregunta para planteársela a la mujer que te robó el tuyo.”
― Brent Weeks, Beyond the Shadows

“..because the only kind of love I have to offer is stupid and blind and so deep and powerful that I feel like I'm cracking just to hold it in.”
― Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows

“I am Sa’kagé a lord of shadows. I claim the shadows that the Shadow may not. I am the strong arm of deliverance. I am Shadowstrider. I am the Scales of Justice. I am He-Who-Guards-Unseen. I am Shadowslayer. I am Nameless. The coranti shall not go unpunished. My way is hard but I serve unbroken. In ignobility nobility. In shame honor. In darkness light. I will do justice and love mercy. Until the king returns I shall not lay my burden down.”

--(Durzo Blint to Jorses Alkestes, quoted to Skylar at the edge of Ezra's Forest.)”
― Brent Weeks, Beyond the Shadows

“Now go and stake some vamps. Especially the sparkly emo ones.”
― Kevin Hearne, Hammered

“Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile.”
― Jim Butcher, Storm Front

“Don’t judge a man by what he says his ideals are, judge him by what he does. Look at what the Color Prince has done. They’re wrong, Teia. They’re liars and murderers. It doesn’t mean everything we do is right. It doesn’t mean our house doesn’t need a thorough cleaning. I just don’t think we need to burn it to the ground to do it.”
― Brent Weeks, The Broken Eye

“An oath you only keep when it's convenient isn't an oath at all.”
― Brent Weeks, Beyond the Shadows

“ A lie told in the service of truth is virtue.”
― Brent Weeks, The Blinding Knife

“A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint”
― Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows

“Love is a fragile, corruptible thing. And yet I have seen it evince a curious strength. It is beyond any comprehension Love is a weakness that once in a great while triumphs over strength. ”
― Brent Weeks, Shadow's Edge

“They say you can know a man by his enemies, Dresden." He smiled, and laughter lurked beneath his next words, never quite surfacing. "You defy beings that should cow you into silence. You resist forces that are inevitable for no more reason than that you believe they should be resisted. You bow your head to neither demons nor angels, and you put yourself in harm's way to defend those who cannot defend themselves." He nodded slowly. "I think I like you.”
― Jim Butcher, Changes