Daniel

“Sometimes you need to break a thing,” the Flea said finally, “in order to see what’s inside it.”
― Brian Staveley, The Last Mortal Bond

“Destruction, it appears,” Nortah went on, a ghost of his old smile on his lips, “is our principal gift to the world, brother.”
― Anthony Ryan, The Wolf's Call

“When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

“Take my memories of my mother, and the feelings that went with them. I do not want to know them at all. Take the ache in my throat when I think of Molly, take all the sharp-edged, bright-colored days I recall with her. Take their brilliance and leave me but the shadows of what I saw and felt. Let me recall them without cutting myself on their sharpness. Take my days and nights in Regal’s dungeons. It is enough to know what was done to me. Take it to keep, and let me stop feeling my face against that stone floor, hearing the sound of my nose breaking, smelling and tasting my own blood. Take my hurt that I never knew my father, take my hours of staring up at his portrait when the great hall was empty and I could do so alone. Take my— Fitz. Stop. You give her too much, there will be nothing left of you.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Quest