Amit Mishra

“Giving advice to a child is like flinging sand at an obsidian wall. Nothing sticks. The brutal truth is that we each suffer our own lessons—they can’t be danced round. They can’t be slipped past. You cannot gift a child with your scars—they arrive like webs, constricting, suffocating, and that child will struggle and strain until they break. No matter how noble your intent, the only scars that teach them anything are the ones they earn themselves.”
― Steven Erikson, Dust of Dreams

“No tyrant could thrive where every subject said no. The tyrant thrives when the first fucking fool salutes.”
― Steven Erikson, Toll the Hounds

“It was the day of my Judgment, and I was prepared in a thousand ways that didn’t matter.”
― Andrew Rowe, Sufficiently Advanced Magic

“Discipline is as much facing the enemy within as the enemy before you;”
― Steven Erikson, The Bonehunters