Sal Ballesteros

“When you have lived either a very short time or a very long time—if you’ve lived well—you will be able to love easily, too. Broken hearts have fresh places to bond with new faces.”
― Brent Weeks, The Broken Eye

“Consider this a warning. Liars will lie, and continue to do so, even beyond being caught out. They will lie, and in time, such liars will convince themselves, will in all self-righteousness divest the liars of culpability.”
― Steven Erikson, Reaper's Gale

“Knowledge is not enough. It never is. It's the capacity to do something with that knowledge. To do it perfectly. Absolute timing. With devastating consequences.”
― Steven Erikson

“You're my favorite complication.”
― Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves