Evan Schuster

“A dwarf will fight for honor, but a man will kill for pride.”
Auron thought for a moment. “What’s the difference?”
“Honor is how others see you. Pride is how you see yourself.”
― E.E. Knight, Dragon Champion

“You may never be entirely happy; few people are. You may never achieve your heart's desire in this world, for people seldom do. Sit by enough deathbeds, Branza, and you will hear your fill of stories of missed chances, and wrong turnings, and spurned opportunities for love. It is required of you only to be here, not to be happy.”
― Margo Lanagan, Tender Morsels

“When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you”
― George R.R. Martin

“It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords