Kenneth

“Hold the cat. You’ll feel better. I don’t think so. He rubbed against my leg insistently. Hold the cat. I don’t want to hold the cat. He reared up suddenly on his hind legs, and hooked his vicious little front claws into both flesh and leggings. Don’t talk back! Pick up the cat.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

“the twins always sets him on edge. He once saw them strangle the waiter just for spilling a drop of their drink. They just did it for fun. They are that sort of guy. But they’re made guys, they are part of a crew. The crew. They are knights of the Round Table. Fuck but he’d kill to be made. Five fucking years and he hasn’t even come close to counting in this town.”
― Lavie Tidhar, By Force Alone

“It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge.
... War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone.
War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him.
The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.
That is the way it was and will be.
That way and not some other way...
War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god...
Men of god and men of war have strange affinities.”
― Cormac McCarthy

“His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god, but then he never claimed not to be a god.”
― Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light