Jazz

“Sol wanted to know how any ethical system – much less a religion so indomitable that it had survived every evil mankind could throw at it – could flow from a command from God for a man to slaughter his son. It did not matter to Sol that the command had been rescinded at the last moment. It did not matter that the command was a test of obedience. In fact, the idea that it was the obedience of Abraham which allowed him to become the father of all the tribes of Israel was precisely what drove Sol into fits of fury.”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“There's no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

“A mundane lie hiding an exotic truth is deception; an exotic lie hiding a mundane truth is storytelling. Deception may be necessary to preserve life, but storytelling makes life worth living”
― Christopher Buehlman, The Lesser Dead

“Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him?”
― Pierre Troubetzkoy