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“Escribo estas palabras en acero, pues todo lo que no esté grabado en metal es indigno de confianza”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has substance nearly as great as the road used to achieve it. We are not creatures of destinations. It is the journey that shapes us. Our callused feet, our backs strong from carrying the weight of our travels, our eyes open with the fresh delight of experiences lived.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“You will love. You will hurt. You will dream. And you will die. Each man's past if your future.
'Then what is the point?' I asked. 'If all has been seen and done?'
'The question,' she replied 'is not whether you will love, hurt, dream, and die. It is what you will love, why you will hurt, when you will dream, and how you will die. This is your choice. You not pick the destination, only the path.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer (1 of 6) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“Ten spears go to battle," he whispered, "and nine shatter. Did the war forge the one that remained? No, Amaran. All the war did was identify the spear that would not break.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“»“La cuestión”, respondió ella, “no es si amarás, sufrirás, soñarás y morirás. Es qué amarás, por qué sufrirás, cuándo soñarás y cómo morirás. Esas son tus elecciones. No puedes elegir la destinación, solo el camino”.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Juramentada

“I don't need your pity. I need you to kill them for me. You have to kill them for me," Venka hissed. "Swear it. Swear on your blood that you will burn them.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“The way to defeat a chess master was not with greater genius, but by forcing her to play a different game.”
― Fonda Lee, Jade Legacy

“My grandfather taught me that if a friend asks for your forgiveness, you should always give it. [...] He also taught me that if you have to give it again, then they weren't a friend to begin with.”
― Fonda Lee, Jade War

“Any old horse will run when it's whipped, but only fast enough to avoid the whipping," Hilo said. "Racehorses, though, they run because they look at the horse on their left, they look at the one on their right, and they think, No way am I second to these fuckers.”
― Fonda Lee, Jade City

“Sometimes, Andy, the people you think you can count on, they let you down in a bad way, and that’s hard to take. But for the most part, you give a man something to live up to, you tell him he can be more than he is now, more than other people think he’ll ever be, and he’ll try his godsdamned best to make it true.”
― Fonda Lee, Jade City

“A man who wears the crown of a king cannot wear the jade of a warrior. Gold and jade, never together.”
― Fonda Lee, Jade City

“You might have twenty years with him. You might only have two. If you waste that time, if you miss it, then when it ends, you’re going to feel like the biggest idiot who ever lived.”
― M.L. Wang, The Sword of Kaigen

“Most strong things are rigid. If you are water, you can shift to fit any mold and freeze yourself strong. You can be strong in any shape. You can be anything.”
― M.L. Wang, The Sword of Kaigen

“A student like you, who can absorb what he is told but also think beyond it, is capable of anything.”
― M.L. Wang, The Sword of Kaigen

“You'd think it would be easier to face death as you get older, but it doesn't work that way. You get more attached to life, to people you love and things that are worth living for.”
― Fonda Lee, Jade Legacy

“How do we do it?” Hilo sighed deeply. “You of all people already know the answer to that, Shae. We don’t handle this world. We make it handle us.”
― Fonda Lee, Jade Legacy

“When something has to be done, there's always a way to do it.”
― Fonda Lee, Jade Legacy

“I will die. You will die. We will all die and the universe will carry on without care. All that we have is that shout into the wind - how we live. How we go. And how we stand before we fall.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“Liars make the best promises.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“It's not victory that makes a man. It's his defeats.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

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

“I live for the dream that my children will be born free. That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them.'
'I live for you,' I say sadly.
She kisses my cheek. 'Then you must live for more.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Doing better next time. That’s what life is.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The First Law Trilogy

“But some things have to be done. It’s better to do them, than to live with the fear of them.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The First Law Trilogy

“A few glasses of wine can be the difference between finding a man a hilarious companion or an insufferable moron.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The First Law Trilogy

“lies. The hardest kind to see through. The kind you tell yourself.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The First Law Trilogy

“You don’t pick your family, you take what you’re given and you make the best of it.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The First Law Trilogy Boxed Set: The Blade Itself, Before They Are Hanged, Last Argument of Kings

“The more you learn, the more you realize how little you know. Still, the struggle itself is worthwhile. Knowledge is the root of power, after all.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself