John

“Jezal was beginning to doubt that anyone in a position of high authority ever really knew what they were doing. The best one could hope for was to maintain some shred of an illusion that one might.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“But you can’t truly hate a man without loving him first,”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“Better to do it,’ Logen whispered under his breath, ‘than live with the fear of it.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“Monotony is boring, and besides, as the ancients loved to point out, expectations of what could be or what should be are the most common sources of our discontent. Expectations lead to disappointment, and disappointment leads to anger and resentment.”
― Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars