John

“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

“I did a good thing, and so, of course, there is a price to be paid.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“Even for me. There’s nothing like the company of someone even more wretched than yourself to make you feel better. Trouble is, take their misery away and your own presses in twice as cold and dreary behind it.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“That’s the trouble with ambition. It’s easy to forget, when you’re always looking upwards, that the only way down from the dizzy heights is a long drop.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings