“There are no true knights, no more than there are gods. If you can’t protect yourself, die and get out of the way of those who can. Sharp steel and strong arms rule this world, don’t ever believe any different.”
― A Clash of Kings
― A Clash of Kings
“A fat man always sits comfortably, I am thinking, for he takes his pillow with him wherever he goes.”
― A Storm of Swords
― A Storm of Swords
“few Muslims realize that only one hundred years before, there were about eighty different readings of the Quran in the Muslim world, and that there are significant differences in Qurans even today.”
― No God but One: Allah or Jesus?: A Former Muslim Investigates the Evidence for Islam and Christianity
― No God but One: Allah or Jesus?: A Former Muslim Investigates the Evidence for Islam and Christianity
“Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him.”
― A Clash of Kings
― A Clash of Kings
“It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particularly long to learn that for yourself. There is a theory that, in the whole world, there are only five hundred real people (the cast, as it were; all the rest of the people in the world, the theory suggests, are extras)”
― Anansi Boys
― Anansi Boys
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