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The Blade Itself
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Bernard Cornwell
“We are almost men, not quite warriors, and on some fateful day we meet an enemy for the first time and we hear the chants of battle, the threatening clash of blades on shields, and we begin to learn that the poets are wrong and that the proud songs lie.”
Bernard Cornwell, The Flame Bearer

Bernard Cornwell
“Christians like to dream of the perfect world, a place where there is no fighting, where sword-blades are hammered into plowshares, and where the lion, whatever that is, sleeps with the lamb. It is a dream. There has always been war and there will always be war. So long as one man wants another man’s wife, or another man’s land, or another man’s cattle, or another man’s silver, so long will there be war. And so long as one priest preaches that his god is the only god or the better god there will be war.”
Bernard Cornwell, War of the Wolf

Brandon Sanderson
“He came at me,” Adolin said, “in the training rooms, screaming that you’d found the killer. Said that if I didn’t come, you’d probably—and I quote—‘go do something stupid without letting me watch.”
Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

Brandon Sanderson
“I will take responsibility for what I have done,” Dalinar whispered. “If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.”
Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

John Gwynne
“Fight me if you wish, but know this, I am old for a reason”
John Gwynne, A Time of Dread

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