""I have people in my life, of course. Some write; some don't. Some read; some don't. Some stare vacantly into space when I talk the geeky talk and walk the geeky walk, but they make killer chocolate chip pancakes and so all is forgiven.""
— Rob Thurman

"The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind."
— Robert Jordan (The Wheel of Time: Boxed Set)

"Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today. -- Mat Cauthon"
— Robert Jordan

"If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips."
— Robert Jordan

"Dovie'andi se tovya sagain!
"
— Robert Jordan

"The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying."
— Robert Jordan (The Eye of the World)

"Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget."
— Robert Jordan (The Dragon Reborn)

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
— Tom Clancy

"Nothing is as real as a dream. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away."
— Tom Clancy

"Think of yourselves as a hand. Each of you is a finger, and without the others you're useless. Alone, a finger can't grasp, or control, or form a fist. You are nothing on your own, and everything together."
— Karen Traviss

"If you take a shot at someone, you keep firing until they can no longer return fire. Wound them, and you have an angry enemy who knows your position."
— Karen Traviss

"So you want a knife, a nice sharp knife. You hone that blade to its limits. It even cuts through stone when you want it to. It saves your life. And then you're outraged when it cuts you accidentally. You see, knives don't switch off. And neither do people, not when you hone them to a fine edge."
— Karen Traviss

"When you're dodging, you're "afraid of getting hit." When you're attacking, you're "afraid of hitting me." When you're protecting someone, you're "afraid of them dying."

It's pathetic! You can't give into fear in a fight!

When you're dodging, think "I won't let you hit me!" When you're protecting someone, think "I won't let you die!" When you're attacking, think "I will cut you!"
--Urahara Kisuke"
— Tite Kubo (Bleach, Vol. 11: A Star and a Stray Dog)

"Warriors fear surrender. They are proud and defiant. They will fight to the death for what they believe in. They will struggle to conquer. Love is not about conquest. The truth is a man can only find true love when he surrenders to it. When he opens his heart to the partner of his soul and says: 'here it is! the very essence of me! It is yours to nurture or destroy.'"
— David Gemmell

"We make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And - if we are strong enough - we live with the consequences."
— David Gemmell

"Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather."
— Robert Jordan

"Bloody flaming ashes"
— Robert Jordan

"Til shade is gone,
til water is gone
Into the shadow with teeth bared
Screaming defiance with the last breath
To spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day."
— Robert Jordan (The Dragon Reborn)

"Take what you want, and pay for it."
— Robert Jordan

"People have hope because they cannot see Death standing behind them."
— Tite Kubo

"If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream."
— David Gemmell

"I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile."
— Robert Jordan (The Eye of the World)

"A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough."
— Robert Jordan

"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again."
— Robert Jordan

"Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can."
— Robert Jordan (The Eye of the World)

"May you shelter in the palm of the Creator's hand, and may the last embrace of the mother welcome you home."
— Robert Jordan

"Dance with her, and she will forgive much. Dance well, and she will forgive anything."
— Robert Jordan

"Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action."
— Karen Traviss (Star Wars Republic Commando True Colors)

"I don't know who the good guys are anymore. But I do know what the enemy is. It's the compromise of principles. You lose the war when you lose your principles. And the first principle is to look out for your comrades."
— Karen Traviss

"Sitting back and not getting involved while people get killed in an endless cycle of wars doesn't count as not having blood on your hands."
— Karen Traviss

"Time means lives. Time means more chaos. We always think that time will resolve things, but it never has."
— Karen Traviss

"And nobody has the right to judge a soldier from the warmth and safety of their armchair."
— Karen Traviss

"It's a cruel and random world, but the chaos is all so beautiful."
— Hiromu Arakawa

"You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm.

It's really funny."
— Brandon Sanderson (Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians)

"Elend: "Each moment you fight is a gift to those in this cavern. Each second we fight is a second longer that thousands of people can draw breath. Each stroke of the sword, each koloss felled, each breath earned is another victory! It is a person protected for a moment longer, a life extended, an enemy frusturated!"
There was a brief pause.
"In the end they shall kill us. But first they shall fear us!""
— Brandon Sanderson (The Hero of Ages)

"How often when we are comfortable, we begin to long for something new! "
— The Brothers Grimm