Patrick

“The oldest argument for doing something wrong is that everyone is doing it. To dismantle what they have built would have required the agreement of every man who had spent his life building it," agrees my father softly. "It would have required them to give up all they have striven their entire lives to gain. And they would have needed to do it, largely, for the benefit of those at whose expense it originally came.”
― James Islington, The Strength of the Few

“You’d give me a throne?”
“I will give you the world, child. If you prove you can take it.”
― C.L. Clark, Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf

“That’s the curious thing about monsters,” she whispers. “The worst ones don’t bother hiding in the dark.”
― Ayana Gray, I, Medusa

“If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages