Alissa

“I’m glad your self-righteousness has given you some exercise, but you forget: we are not such a tidy, reasonable, and humane race. Our thoughts don’t stand in grammatical rows, our hearts don’t draw equations, our consciences don’t have the benefit of historians whispering the answers to us.”
― Josiah Bancroft, Senlin Ascends

“Throw away too much of your past and you abandon the person who walked those days. When you pare away at yourself you can reinvent, that’s true enough, but such whittling always seems to reveal a lesser man, and promises to leave you with nothing at the end.”
― mark lawrence, The Liar's Key

“The rebuke came, keen-edged. ‘Trusting the man is not the same thing as knowing what he’s about.”
― Janny Wurts, To Ride Hell’s Chasm

“It’s tragic how the lack of imagination so often shapes our defeat.”
― Janny Wurts, To Ride Hell’s Chasm