Richard

“What a fabulous kingdom the mind is, and you the emperor of all of it. You can bed the duke's wife and have the duke strangled in your mind. A crippled man can think himself a dancer, and an idiot can fool himself wise. The day a magicker peeks into the thoughts of commoners for some thin-skinned duke or king will be a bad day. Those with callused hands will rise on that day, for a man will only toil in a mine so long as he can dream of sunny fields, and he'll only kneel for a tyrant if he can secretly cut that tyrant's throat in the close theater of his bowed head.”
― Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief

“He believed in me, even when there was nothing to believe in.”
― Rachel Aaron, The Spirit War

“By the pink left nipple of sweet Vashtilulu the Buxom! I feel you have Koztivkure slung on your back! Strike down the foul wizard, and have done!"
"Aye," squeaked Tosho, "for what he had you do to me, do as Krak says, and strike his blasphemous head from his loathsome shoulders!”
― Kenneth Bulmer, Kandar

“By the bounteous bottom of sweet Vashtilulu the Buxom! I'm looking forward to this, Our Kandar!”
― Kenneth Bulmer, Kandar