Oin

“Evil is not the opposite of good. It is what we call another man’s notion of good when it differs from ours.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Wisdom of Crowds

“The present age is only unique because you live in it. When you die, you cease to care about that age. And you know this. Which is why you don’t care about anything past your own life. Why should you? It follows, quite reasonably, that every generation is righteous in cursing the one that precedes it. Namely, yours. And the vicious fighting withdrawal that is your own conservatism – this bitter, hate-filled war against change – is doomed to fail, because no age lasts for ever. One follows upon the next and this is an inescapable fact. So step aside. Your day is done. Any regression into childish tantrums makes a mockery of wisdom. The age dies with you, as it must, and you now show its face to be that of a mewling child who can no longer hold on to what has ceased to exist. Synthraeas”
― Steven Erikson, The God is Not Willing: The First Tale of Witness

“We called them false angels. You came to me asking how my faith survived the Day of Judgement. I will tell you a secret. When the stars fell, when the seas boiled and the earth burned, my faith didn’t die. That is when I began to believe. God was real, and he hated us.”
― Aaron Dembski-Bowden, The First Heretic

“Politics is like dice: the better the player, the worse the man.”
― C.J. Sansom, Heartstone