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“has become their one diversion, their one pleasure—their religion.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, Hunters of the Red Moon

“The man who feels fear without cause is a fool; but the man is twice a fool who does not feel fear when there is cause.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, Hunters of the Red Moon

“humans—far from being a dominant species, were regarded as one of the most unstable and untrustworthy, being at the mercy of what most of the Unity's people regarded as a dangerously prevalent sex drive.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Survivors

“As life grew better, happier, safer, did it also lose some indefinable edge which made it worth living at all?”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Survivors

“The night can last twenty hours and even when the day finally breaks it never gets above a level of cold I call “fuck that”—as in you open the door, your face freezes instantly to the point where it hurts to speak, but manfully you manage to say “fuck that,” before turning round, and going back to bed.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Liar's Key

“Fear is a valuable commodity, it’s common sense compressed into its purest form.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Liar's Key

“The breaking of day changes all things, Snorri. Nothing endures beyond the count of the sun. Pile a sufficient weight of mornings upon a thing and it will change. Even the rocks themselves will not outlast the morning.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Liar's Key

“If there’s one thing I can’t stand about licentious behaviour, it’s when I’m not involved.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Liar's Key

“Great emotion, it turns out, is a fire, and like a fire it needs fuel. Unfed it dies down to a hot and banked glow, ready to ignite again but leaving space for other matters.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Liar's Key

“Throw away too much of your past and you abandon the person who walked those days. When you pare away at yourself you can reinvent, that’s true enough, but such whittling always seems to reveal a lesser man, and promises to leave you with nothing at the end.”
― mark lawrence, The Liar's Key

“A historian is a hunter, my lord. Seeking out signs in the undergrowth of correspondence and memoir, tracking prey via the spoor of memory.”
― Anthony Ryan, Queen of Fire

“You must know that a person’s ability to discern the truth is directly proportional to his knowledge.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

“The past was like a handful of sand you thought you were squeezing tightly, but which had already run out through the cracks between your fingers. Memory was a river that had run dry long ago, leaving only scattered gravel in a lifeless riverbed. He had lived life always looking out for the next thing, and whenever he had gained, he had also lost, leaving him with little in the end.”
― Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest

“It doesn’t take long in Hell before your definition of “good company” reduces to “not dead.” For”
― Mark Lawrence, The Wheel of Osheim

“A man’s first taste of the poppy gives him something glorious and wonderful, something that he strives to recapture with each return to the resin, but in the end he needs to smoke it just to feel human. Life is the same for many of us—a few scant years of golden youth when everything tastes sweet, every experience new and sharp with meaning. Then a long slow grind to the grave, trying and failing to recapture that feeling you had when you were seventeen and the world rolled out before you.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Wheel of Osheim

“Interesting,” I said, by which I meant “shut the fuck up.” Why”
― Mark Lawrence, The Wheel of Osheim

“a man who pokes tigers with a stick will one day be mauled. You can take the stick away, but he’ll find another.”
― Robert V.S. Redick, Master Assassins

“I had not thought him so bold. But of course he was. Artist, creator, inventor, the greatest the world had known.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Guilt is a luxury reserved for those still breathing and with no unbearable pain, cold or hunger demanding all their fickle attention. Long as guilt’s your big problem, girl…” Rikke saw the faint gleam of Isern’s teeth in the gathering darkness. “Things can’t be that bad.”
― Joe Abercrombie, A Little Hatred

“Knowledge isn’t always a gift, d’you see? Sometimes it’s better we be swaddled in the comforting darkness of ignorance.”
― Joe Abercrombie, A Little Hatred

“I know you like to think you’re jolting about helpless in a runaway cart, carried off to who-knows-where with no say in the matter, but if you look down, you might see you’re holding the reins.”
― Joe Abercrombie, A Little Hatred

“A man with a balding pink head and a heavy chain of office started towards him. One weak chin had clearly not been weak enough, and he had opted for several spread across his fur-trimmed collar.”
― Joe Abercrombie, A Little Hatred

“They tell you drink makes you happy, but what they mean is it makes happy folk happier. They don’t tell you that it makes unhappy folk more fucking unhappy than ever.”
― Joe Abercrombie, A Little Hatred

“But then it’s difficult, isn’t it, to make a passionate argument for what you already have? So boring. Whereas the delightful alternative? A bouquet of promises! A sackful of dreams! A glorious ship of fantasies, undamaged by collision with actually getting anything done.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble with Peace

“You can’t change the fact the world’s full of arseholes. You can only change how you deal with them.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble with Peace

“It’s easy to scream about the fence when you’re on the wrong side of it. Some mad twist of fortune lands you on the right side, though, the fence starts to look like it might not be such a bad idea. Might even be worth all the sacrifices. Other people’s sacrifices aren’t that hard to make.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble with Peace

“He’ll trip over his own cock soon enough, then you can laugh at the outcome without getting your hands dirty. If I’ve learned one thing, it’s that there’s rarely any need to wade into the bitter ocean for your vengeance. It’ll wash up on the shore soon enough.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble with Peace

“Those who claim to be “ready for anything” are overpacked and invariably unprepared for the one obstacle every adventurer must eventually face—disappointment.”
― Josiah Bancroft, The Fall of Babel

“The only medicine for gout is moderation; the only cure for excess is charity.”
― Josiah Bancroft, The Fall of Babel

“Scavenge is such an unlovely word. It conjures up visions of vultures and grave robbers. We only take what the dead could not carry.”
― Josiah Bancroft, The Fall of Babel