Ivan Berezin

“It's too late to apologize for I have already forgiven you." -FitzChivalry Farseer”
― Robin Hobb

“You're a very difficult person to manipulate, you know."
"Nonsense," he said. "You just have to promise me that I won't have to do a thing, and then I'll do anything you want."
"Anything?"
"Anything that doesn't require doing anything."
"That's nothing, then."
"Is it?"
"Yes."
"Well, that's something.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need. I wished to come here and say that I am a man who does not exist for others." - Howard Roark”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.”
― Søren Kierkegaard