Grace

“People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Stiff upper lip, put on a brave face and pretend that if you can ignore the horrors of the past and think only of the future, then you too will be all right. This was an island of crazy people.”
― Louise Hare, This Lovely City

“Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones