Sean Fitzsimmons

“The keel-mounted rail gun pushed the whole ship backward in a solid mathematical relationship to the mass of the two-kilo tungsten round moving at a measurable fraction of c. Newton’s third law expressed as violence. Holden’s”
― James S.A. Corey, Babylon's Ashes

“This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You deal out cards, and say that all a man’s fortune for the night may turn upon one hand. But a man’s whole life, you sniff at, and say, what, this naught of a human, this fisherman, this carpenter, this thief, this cook, why, what can they do in the great wide world? And so you putter and sputter your lives away, like candles burning in a draft.”
― Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin

“There’s a reason theory and practice are two different words.”
― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

“When you surrender what isn’t under your control, you’re not giving up a crown, you’re giving up a yoke. I”
― Brent Weeks, The Broken Eye