Macnutty

“It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart’s hope. It was what I wanted to be.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory

“Successes are secret and thankless, failures are splashy and gain you only blame.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory

“Strange, isn’t it,’ mused Glokta as he watched him struggle for air. ‘Big men, small men, thin men, fat men, clever men, stupid men, they all respond the same to a fist in the guts. One minute you think you’re the most powerful man in the world. The next you can’t even breathe by yourself.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged

“But chaos is the natural state of things, for men pull always in their own directions. It is those who want the world to march all the same way that give themselves the challenge.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold