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“There’s nothing unpatriotic about the truth,” muttered Leo, wondering whether there might be.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble with Peace

“Burdens were born from the loss of innocence. Naïveté. While the innocent yearned to lose their innocence, those who had already done so in turn envied the innocent, and knew grief in what they had lost. Between the two, no exchange of truths was possible. He sensed the completion of an internal journey, and Paran found he did not appreciate recognizing that fact, nor the place where he now found himself. It did not suit him that ignorance remained inextricably bound to innocence, and the loss of one meant the loss of the other.”
― Steven Erikson, The Bonehunters

“He faced Karsa again. ‘You will stay this night at the Inn of the Wood?’
‘I shall, although it is not made of wood, and so it should be called Inn of the Brick.”
― Steven Erikson, The Bonehunters

“But there’s so much to feel sorry for in the world. Can’t waste too much on folk who act like pricks.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble with Peace