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  • #1
    Joe Abercrombie
    “Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.”
    Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

  • #2
    Erin Morgenstern
    “Strange, isn’t it? To love a book. When the words on the pages become so precious that they feel like part of your own history because they are. It’s nice to finally have someone read stories I know so intimately.”
    Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

  • #3
    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

  • #4
    Pierce Brown
    “I will give Eo your love. I will make a house for you in the Vale of your fathers. It will be beside my own. Join me there when you die.” He grins. “But I am no builder. So take your time. We will wait.”
    Pierce Brown, Morning Star

  • #5
    Scott Lynch
    “Crooked Warden,” said Locke, “men are stupid. Protect us from ourselves. If you can’t, let it be quick and painless.”
    Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

  • #6
    Scott Lynch
    “Can you imagine those poor bastards grappling their prey, leaping over the rails, swords in hand, screaming 'Your cats! Give us all your god-damned cats!”
    Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

  • #7
    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “Nonsense," said the witcher. "And what's more, it doesn't rhyme. All decent predictions rhyme.”
    Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish

  • #8
    Jim  Butcher
    “Holy shit," I breathed. "Hellhounds."
    "Harry," Michael said sternly. "You know I hate it when you swear."
    "You're right. Sorry. Holy shit," I breathed, "heckhounds.”
    Jim Butcher, Grave Peril

  • #9
    Brandon Sanderson
    “The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

  • #10
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

  • #11
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

  • #12
    Scott Lynch
    “You can't help being young, but it's past time that you stopped being stupid.”
    Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

  • #13
    Scott Lynch
    “Throwing blondes at Locke Lamora was not unlike throwing lettuce at sharks.”
    Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

  • #14
    Scott Lynch
    “You're one third bad intentions, one third pure avarice, and one eighth sawdust. What's left, I'll credit, must be brains.”
    Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

  • #15
    Scott Lynch
    “Yeah, but if I don't start my nervous pacing now, I'll never have it all done in time.”
    Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves

  • #16
    Scott Lynch
    “Fuckdamn,” said Conté, totally unable to help himself when the sums involved vanished over his mental horizon. “Beg pardon, Doña Sofia.”
    “You should.” She drained her snifter in one quick unladylike gulp. “Your calculations are off. This merits a triple fuckdamn at least.”
    Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora
    tags: humor

  • #17
    Scott Lynch
    “We may need to ready ourselves to repel boarders.” “With what? One stiletto and hurtful insinuations about their mothers?”
    Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

  • #18
    Scott Lynch
    “Jassaline's little potion seems to have brought up every meal I've had in the past five years." said Locke.
    "Nothing left to spit up but my naked soul. Make sure it isn't floating around in one of those before you toss them, right?"

    "I think I see it," Jean said. "Nasty, crooked little thing it is too; you're better off with it floating out to sea.”
    Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

  • #20
    Scott Lynch
    “When you don't know everything that you could know, it's a fine time to shut your fucking noisemaker and be polite.”
    Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

  • #21
    Scott Lynch
    “Know something? I'd lay even odds that between the people following us and the people hunting us, we've become this city's principle means of employment. Tal Verrar's entire economy is now based on fucking with us.”
    Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

  • #22
    Pierce Brown
    “I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.”
    Pierce Brown, Red Rising

  • #23
    Pierce Brown
    “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

  • #24
    Pierce Brown
    “You're a sinister little shit, aren't you?" Victra asks.
    "I'm Gold, bitch. What'd you expect? Warm milk and cookies just because I'm pocket sized?”
    Pierce Brown, Golden Son

  • #25
    Pierce Brown
    “The Reaper has come. And he’s brought hell with him.”
    Pierce Brown, Morning Star

  • #26
    Pierce Brown
    “Sevro snorts. “What do you think I’ve been doing this whole time, you silky turd? Wanking off in the bushes?”
    Cassius and I look at each other.
    “Kind of,” I say.
    “Yeah, actually,” Cassius agrees.”
    Pierce Brown, Red Rising

  • #26
    Pierce Brown
    “Shit escalates”
    Pierce Brown, Morning Star
    tags: sevro

  • #27
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Elend: I kind of lost track of time…
    Breeze: For two hours?
    Elend: There were books involved.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

  • #28
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Elend smiled. "Oh, come on. You have to admit that you're unusual, Vin. You're like some strange mixture of a noblewoman, a street urchin, and a cat. Plus, you've mangaged - in our short three years together - to kill not only my god, but my father, my brother, and my fiancée. That's kind of like a homicidal hat trick.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

  • #29
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Honor is dead. But I'll see what I can do.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

  • #30
    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
    Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish



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