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“The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us. I can see it in you, sure as I see it in me. You're a daughter of the words. A girl with a story to tell.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

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“Too many books. Too few centuries.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

tags: books, chronicler

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#3

“Never flinch" A cold whisper in her ear. "Never fear. And never, ever forget.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

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“The brighter the light, the deeper the shadow.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

tags: light, mercurio, shadow

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#5

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

tags: art, revenge, science

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#6

“Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

tags: memories, past

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#7

“Hate will keep you alive where love fails”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

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#8

“Few things worth having can be got easily.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

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#9

“Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

tags: predictability, sacrifice, weakness

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#10

“Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

tags: fear

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“The way to break the cycle is to kill every single one of the bastards that fucked you over. Every last one of them. Kill them all. Kill their mother, kill their brothers, kill their children, kill their dog.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

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“I've been known to be contrary. When something pushes me, I shove back. Even if the one doing the pushing is me. It would have been easy to gut him then and there. Satisfying. But the need was too urgent. I felt pushed.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

tags: murder, rebellious

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#13

“Memory is a double-edged sword, Uthas. It can keep you strong through dark times, but it can also cripple you, keep you locked in a moment that no longer exists.”
― John Gwynne, Valor

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#14

“Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.”
― Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows

tags: nihilism, philosophy

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“Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.”
― Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows

tags: assassin, fantasy, sword, words

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#16

“You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't have one.”
― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

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“There are some pains that run too deep for anything to absolve them. The best we can do is pick up the pieces and hope for the strength we need to keep going. (Acheron)
Is that what you do? (Tory)
No, I beat shit up – that helps even more. (Acheron)”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Acheron

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#18

“People destroy beauty when they find it. (Acheron)
How so? (Artemis)
By nature, people are petty and jealous. They envy what they lack and because they don’t know how to acquire something, they try to destroy anyone who has it. Beauty is one of those things they hate most in others. (Acheron)”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Acheron

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#19

“Destiny is all, Ravn liked to tell me, destiny is everything. He would even say it in English, “Wyrd biõ ful ãræd.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Last Kingdom

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#20

“Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.”
― Bernard Cornwell, Death of Kings

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#21

“We all suffer from dreams.”
― Bernard Cornwell, Death of Kings

tags: dreams, false-hope, illusions, suffering

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#22

“The preachers tell us that pride is a great sin, but the preachers are wrong. Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Last Kingdom

tags: preachers, pride, reputation, shield-wall

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#23

“Life is simple," I said. "Ale, women, sword, and reputation. Nothing else matters.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Pale Horseman

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#24

“Shit!” Evelgold added.
“What?” Hook asked, alarmed.
“I just stepped in some.”
“That’s supposed to bring you luck,” Hook said.
“Then I’d better dance in the goddam stuff.”
― Bernard Cornwell, Agincourt

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#25

“Wyrd bið ful āræd. Fate is inexorable.”
― Bernard Cornwell, Warriors of the Storm

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#26

“Why do we fight?" he asked.

"Because we were born.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Burning Land

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#27

“There is such joy in chaos. Stow all the world's evils behind a door and tell men that they must never, ever, open the door, and it will be opened because there is pure joy in destruction.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Pale Horseman

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“‎"He sang the song of the sword, keening as he fed his blade, and Rollo, standing thigh-deep in the creek, ax swinging in murderous blows, blocked the enemy's escape. The Frisians, transported from confidence to bowel-loosening fear, began to drop their weapons.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Burning Land

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#29

“Calix meus inebrians.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Archer's Tale

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#30

“If a man can’t remember the laws,” Ragnar said, “then he’s got too many of them.”
― Bernard Cornwell, Lords of the North

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