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  • #1
    George Eliot
    “Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
    George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such

  • #2
    Peter V. Brett
    “Let others determine your worth and you're already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves.”
    Peter V. Brett, The Warded Man

  • #3
    Peter V. Brett
    “Welcome to adulthood." Cob said. "Every child finds a day when they realize that adults can be weak and wrong just like everyone else. After that day, you are an adult. Like it or not.”
    Peter V. Brett, The Warded Man

  • #4
    William Golding
    “Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
    William Golding, Lord of the Flies

  • #5
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #6
    Peter J. Tomasi
    “There are no heroes and there are no villains. There are just opposing points of view. That's all history is...the viciously long battle between world views.”
    Peter J. Tomasi

  • #7
    Jean Kerr
    “I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?”
    Jean Kerr

  • #8
    Mark  Lawrence
    “We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.”
    Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

  • #9
    Mark  Lawrence
    “They say that time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”
    Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

  • #10
    Mark  Lawrence
    “A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages.”
    Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

  • #11
    Mark  Lawrence
    “Still, children hope in ways adults find hard to imagine. They carry their dreams before them, fragile, in both arms, waiting for the world to trip them.”
    Mark Lawrence, The Liar's Key

  • #12
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

  • #13
    Joe Abercrombie
    “You were a hero round these parts. That's what they call you when you kill so many people the word murderer falls short.”
    Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold

  • #14
    Joe Abercrombie
    “I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.”
    Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

  • #16
    Joe Abercrombie
    “You should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.”
    Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold

  • #17
    Joe Abercrombie
    “It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough.”
    Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

  • #18
    Joe Abercrombie
    “But that was civilisation, so far as Logen could tell. People with nothing better to do, dreaming up ways to make easy things difficult.”
    Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself

  • #19
    Joe Abercrombie
    “That was the difference between a hero and a villain, a soldier and a murderer, a victory and a crime. Which side of a river you called home.”
    Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold

  • #20
    Joe Abercrombie
    “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

  • #21
    Joe Abercrombie
    “The wise speaker first learns when to stay silent”
    Joe Abercrombie, Half a King

  • #22
    Joe Abercrombie
    “Something dug into the Bloody-Nine's back, but there was no pain. It was a sign. A message in a secret tongue, that only he could understand. It told him where the next dead man was standing.”
    Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself

  • #23
    Mark  Lawrence
    “The enemy of my enemy may be my friend … of course the friend of my friend is often a jerk.”
    Mark Lawrence, Red Sister

  • #24
    Mark  Lawrence
    “A book is as dangerous as any journey you might take. The person who closes the back cover may not be the same one that opened the front one. Treat them with respect.”
    Mark Lawrence, Red Sister

  • #25
    Mark  Lawrence
    “I have been too young to know, and I have been too old to care. It’s in that oh so narrow slice between that memories are made.”
    Mark Lawrence, Red Sister

  • #26
    Mark  Lawrence
    “There are some things that must be done quickly or not at all. If someone asks you if you love them you cannot hesitate. There are some paths that must be taken at speed.”
    Mark Lawrence, Red Sister

  • #27
    Mark  Lawrence
    “Your death has not been waiting for your arrival at the appointed hour: it has, for all the years of your life, been racing towards you with the fierce velocity of time's arrow. It cannot be evaded, it cannot be bargained with, deflected or placated. All that is given to you is the choice: meet it with open eyes and peace in your heart, go gentle to your reward. Or burn bright, take up arms, and fight the bitch.”
    Mark Lawrence, Red Sister

  • #28
    Mark  Lawrence
    “Truth is a weapon and lies are a necessary shield.”
    Mark Lawrence, Red Sister

  • #29
    Mark  Lawrence
    “Trust is the most insidious of poisons. Trust sidesteps all of your precautions.”
    Mark Lawrence, Red Sister

  • #30
    Mark  Lawrence
    “Violence is the language of destruction, flesh so often the subject, fragile, easy to break beyond repair, precious; what else would we burn to make the world take note?”
    Mark Lawrence, Red Sister

  • #31
    Mark  Lawrence
    “We’re wild things us men, and when we remember it we’re at our most dangerous.”
    Mark Lawrence, Red Sister



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