Ken

“There are only three people in life you can never fool--pawnbrokers, whores, and your mother. Since your mother's dead, I've taken her place. Hence, I'm bullshit-proof.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

“When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“They were viewed very much like castles, I suppose: as crumbling, obsolete relics, with no real modern function other than as tourist attractions. But when the skies darkened and the nation called, both reawoke to the meaning of their existence. One shielded our bodies, the other, our souls.”
― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

“The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.”
― Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows