“The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes.”
- Joe Abercrombie

“Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”
- Patrick Rothfuss

“That was the difference between a hero and a villain, a soldier and a murderer, a victory and a crime. Which side of a river you called home.”
- Joe Abercrombie

“If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?”
- Joe Abercrombie

“ All great men are play actors of their own ideal. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche