He Who Fights with Monsters 2 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #2)

by Shirtaloon

“She’d call me out when I started talking out my backside. Which you may come to find is pretty often.”

I told you that your mistake was not caring who your games hurt. Kill me and you won’t just lose this office; you’ll die in it.”

“The better things seem, the worse it will be when the floor falls out from under us. Nothing can hurt you as badly as hope.”

“Kicking a guy in the beans and then running for it is not fighting.” “It got me this far.”

“Our feelings are not always the wisest guide.

I’d rather pay for doing the right thing than roll over and let someone like you do whatever he likes.”

“You play dangerous games, Jason,” Rufus warned. “Someday you're going to pay for that.”

Do what you’re good at now and do the next thing when it’s ready to be done.”

“What is going on here?” he asked. “Jason, what did you do?” “Why do you assume it was me?” “Was it you?” “Well, yes, but where’s the faith?”

“If politeness is where they draw the line, then they aren’t exactly reliable benefactors,”

“I’m changing my answer,” Emir said, breaking the silence. “I’ve just now known him long enough to realise I absolutely do not understand him at all.”

“I wake up every morning, proud of who I am,” he told them. “I go out into the world, never regretting that I didn’t at least try and be the person I want to be. I face dangers and make mistakes. Sometimes I get beat, and sometimes I win. I stand up for what I believe in, whatever it costs me. When you give everything, you have to be who you want to be, that’s freedom, whatever your circumstances.”

“All that matters is the choice you make, right now. Sometimes the moments that define our lives go unnoticed until later. This is not one of those. I am offering you the chance to literally grasp your destiny. Take it or walk away, knowing that this is the moment that decides everything that comes after.”

“Farrah was always impressed by you,” Rufus said. “We all saw the potential in you. You’re her legacy now.”

“None of us live up to the expectations we put on ourselves,”

You don’t have to be some shining representative of who she was. Just try to be an adventurer she would be proud to have trained.”

Acting just for the sake of doing something is borrowing trouble when we already have enough.”

“If your goddess is willing to hand over such information, then by what moral stricture does she not? Instead, she looks to ransom a man’s principles. You just tried to turn me on my friend, a man who saved my life, and you have the gall to lay there looking surprised? If you want to help me, then help me. Bring your self-serving ways to me again and you’ll get worse than you got today.”

“You should always welcome being proven wrong,” Jason said. “It means your understanding of the world just got a little bit better.”

“I'm not saying I always welcome being wrong in the moment,” Jason acknowledged. “The important thing is to reflect on it and accept it going forward.”

Money and power have to be a means, not an end, or you'll lead a joyless life.”

You can do almost anything if you're willing to do what it takes. People mostly fail at things because they balk at what they have to do. It's not that the path isn't there but that they aren't willing to walk it. There's a price they aren't willing to pay, be it literal, political, social, whatever. But if you're willing to commit, impossible is just a word for people convincing themselves not to try.”

“It’s best to just let him go and not ask questions,” Clive said. “That way lies madness, believe me.”

“There’s method to the madness, sure, but there’s also madness to the madness. It’s about leaning into your strengths and working with what you’ve got—a

Figure out what you are, and be the ever-living crap out of that thing. Then find the people willing to put up with it.

“You should know that she thought you had an incredible potential,” William said. “If you could learn to get out of your own way,”

“Farrah tried to hammer into my head that I should only start trouble when trouble is what I want.”

We have lives of wonder ahead of us.”

Death is easy enough to find as an adventurer. I don’t need to go looking for it.”

“Life isn’t for surviving, Wexler. Life is for living.”

This is your chance to take control. The river may be raging but you’ll be amazed how fast you go working with the flow, instead of against it.”

“I have a soft spot for poor but flamboyant choices.”

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he does not become a monster?”

“If I’m going to be the kind of adventurer—the kind of person—I want to be, I’m going to face tougher challenges than this.”

“Mate, you want resolve, then here it is: get to helping, get to stopping me or get out of my bloody way. That’s your choice to make.”

A job worth doing is worth doing well, therefore to do a job well you must find someone who thinks it’s worth doing. That is what we do: find jobs that require doing and match them to the person who thinks doing them is worthwhile.”

“If you run around chasing the best possible result,” Neil told Clive, “you might miss out on the great thing you gave up to maintain the chase.”

“Trauma is not an excuse to hurt other people,”

“Simple, however, is not the same thing as easy.”