“The things about Shakespeare is, he's so eloquent...he speaks the unspeakable. He turns grief and triumph and rapture and rage into words, into something we can understand. He renders the whole mystery of humanity comprehensible.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“How tremendous the agony of unmade decisions.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“A tower seldom crumbles from the bottom up,”
― The Farseer Trilogy
― The Farseer Trilogy
“It takes a weak man to prove his strength by striking a woman.”
― The Empty Throne
― The Empty Throne
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