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“Get rid of your doubts. Yesterday is dead. Past mistakes are like smoke in the breeze.”
― David Gemmell, Legend

“Don't you want to know what I saw?" she asked. "Everyone always wants to know what's ahead of them."
"People are fools. You don't need a prophet to tell you the future. Look at yesterday, then look at today. Tomorrow is likely to be the same, and the day after that.”
― Daniel Polansky, Low Town

“Look at your mistakes long enough to learn from them, then put them behind you.”
― Brent Weeks, The Blood Mirror

“I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air, I am he that walks unseen.

I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.

I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me.

I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

“Life is nothing more than moments in time. To achieve greatness, you have to give up those moments. You have to give your life to your goal.”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons

“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

“Life was about momentum. Pick a direction and don't let anything—man or storm— turn you aside.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“But in the end it's only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Never violate a woman, nor harm a child. Do not lie, cheat or steal. These things are for lesser men. Protect the weak against the evil strong. And never allow thoughts of gain to lead you into the pursuit of evil. Never back away from an enemy. Either fight or surrender. It is not enough to say I will not be evil. Evil must be fought wherever it is found.”The Iron Code”
― David Gemmell, Legend

“Personally, I always feel that survival is cheap at any price and it puzzles me that so many men in authority don’t seem to see it that way.”
― K.J. Parker, How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It

“There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. There will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.”
― Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

“Stop punishing yourself for being someone with a heart. You cannot protect yourself from suffering. To live is to grieve. You are not protecting yourself by shutting yourself off from the world. You are limiting yourself.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“Nikolai had been told that hope was dangerous, had been warned of it many times. But he’d never believed that. Hope was the wind that came from nowhere to fill your sails and carry you home.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“Fear is a phoenix. Words Liliyana had spoken to her years ago and that Zoya had repeated to others many times. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“You see, some people are born with a piece of night inside, and that hollow place can never be filled - not with all the good food or sunshine in the world. That emptiness cannot be banished, and so some days we wake with the feeling of the wind blowing through, and we must simply endure it as the boy did.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“Bad fates do not always follow those who deserve them.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“Wanting is why people get up in the morning. It gives them something to dream of at night. The more I wanted, the more I became like them, the more real I became.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“I know who I am without anyone there to tell me.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“I missed you every hour. And you know what the worst part was? It caught me completely by surprise. I'd catch myself just walking around to find you, not for any reason, just out of habit, because I'd seen something that I wanted to tell you about or because I wanted to hear your voice. And then I'd realize that you weren't there anymore, and every time, every single time, it was like having the wind knocked out of me. I've risked my life for you. I've walked half the length of Ravka for you, and I'd do it again and again and again just to be with you, just to starve with you and freeze with you and hear you complain about hard cheese every day. So don't tell me why we don't belong together," he said fiercely.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

“I can bear ugliness, I find the only thing I cannot live with is death.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.”
― Brent Weeks, The Blinding Knife

“Lan shook his head sightly "He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you're dead.”
― Robert Jordan, New Spring

“I kissed her cheek then, because I feared to do it and though commonsense may occasionally bind me, I'll be fucked if fear will.”
― Mark Lawrence, Emperor of Thorns

“Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief in right and wrong."
"But the Almighty determines what is right!"
"Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality -- which answers only to my heart -- is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Life is problems. Living is solving problems.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Silverthorn

“The problem with wanting," he whispered, his mouth trailing along my jaw until it hovered over my lips, "is that it makes us weak.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season