Bruce

“Unreliable? Nonsense, Superior! Out of luck is all, and we both know how that goes, no? Why, there’s not a man of them I wouldn’t trust my mother to.’ ‘Are you sure?’ ‘She’s been dead these twenty years. What harm could they do her now?”
― Joe Abercrombie, The First Law Trilogy

“Good. I worry about you sometimes, Dalinar.” “Worry? Why?” “Everyone says you’re dense,” he explained. “I fear you will believe them.” “Everyone?” “Mostly me,” Wit admitted.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Wind and Truth

“Hazidan smacked my head. I knew it was going to happen sooner or later. ‘And stop swearing in my presence. Cursing is the lazy man’s wit.’ ‘That’s sarcasm.’ She smacked me again.”
― Sebastien de Castell, The Malevolent Seven

“It’s remarkable how seldom visions are unremarkable. Or might it be that the great majority of our days are populated with visions that are simply too pedestrian to be called into question? How many of us have an acquaintance that is entirely fictional and who we will go to our graves believing to have been real?”
― Mark Lawrence, The Book That Broke the World