Josh Bingham

“Middle ground only comes in war after lots of people have died—and only after the important people are worried they might actually lose.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“Lord save me, thinks I, that must be the harpooneer, the infernal head-peddler. But I lay perfectly still, and resolved not to say a word till spoken to. Holding a light in one hand, and that identical New Zealand head in the other, the stranger entered the room, and without looking towards the bed, placed his candle a good way off from me on the floor in one corner, and then began working away at the knotted cords of the large bag I before spoke of as being in the room.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick: or, the White Whale

“when they’re about to hang you, ask for a glass of water. You never know what might happen before they bring it.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Lady of the Lake

“Peace talks are a market. A country fair. So that some people can be bought, others must be sold. Thus the world runs its course. The point is not to pay too high a price . . .’ ‘And not to sell oneself too cheaply,’ finished the elf, without raising his head.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Lady of the Lake