Madara Bruģe

“The poets, when they speak of war, talk of the shield wall, they talk of the spears and arrows flying, of the blade beating on the shield, of the heroes who fall and the spoils of the victors, but I was to discover that war was really about food. About feeding men and horses. About finding food. The army that eats wins.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Last Kingdom

“I was more ass than assassin.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools

“Watch this!” he said, and what happened next might have been extraordinarily funny were their lives not at stake. But they were, so it wasn’t.”
― Nicholas Eames, Kings of the Wyld

“Books were safer than other people anyway.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane