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“Aye, beg me for mercy, Sassenach. Ye shallna have it, though; not yet.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“Life – the way it really is – is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse’ Joseph Brodsky”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself

“The ninth Earl of Ellesmere had his chin thrust out as far as it would go, but the defiant look in his eye was tempered with a certain doubt as he intercepted Jamie’s cold blue gaze. Jamie set the horse’s hoof down slowly, just as slowly stood up, and drawing himself to his full height of six feet four, put his hands on his hips, looked down at the Earl, three feet six, and said, very softly, “No.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Voyager

“Different men have different ways, Logen had told him once, and you have to have fear to have courage.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself