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“Do you remember when we took that tame sport called swords and learned to kill with it, as the old volumes said men once had?”
― Robert Jordan, The Dragon Reborn

“You want too much of me" he snapped at her as he reached the other side of the chasm. "I'm not some glorious knight of ancient days. I'm a broken man. Do you hear me Syl? I'm broken."

She zipped up to him and whispered "That's what they all were, silly.”
― Brandon Sanderson

“If a sword had memory, it might be grateful to the forge fire, but never fond of it.”
― Robert Jordan, The Complete Wheel of Time

“I would have found you earlier, before whatever happened that filled you with this rage. I would not have raised you to be a great man. There is no peace for great men. I would have had you be a decent one. I would have given you the quiet strength to grow old with the woman you love.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
― Albert Camus

“He has forgotten how to laugh except in bitterness; there are no tears left in him”
― Robert Jordan, The Path of Daggers

“The old Thrill, the sense of battle, consumed him. It did not enrage him, as it did some men, but everything seemed to become clearer, crisper. His muscles moved easily; he breathed more deeply. He came alive.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“He seemed like a man who constantly had his teeth clenched, a man who couldn’t let himself—or anyone else—just sit down and take a nice rest.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“Sweeter than the scent of flatbread baking was that of oiled leather. More welcoming than the sound of flutes was that of practice swords rapping against one another. Wherever he was, and whatever station he obtained, a place like this would always be home.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”
― Antonio Gramsci

“The line between knight and brigand is the width of the edge of the sword.”
― Christian Cameron, The Long Sword

“Every one of you knows that a man never, ever looks better than when he's just fought in harness. His body is as light as air.”
― Christian Cameron, The Ill-Made Knight

“No,” said Crown. “I’m boobs and hair and talk and a hell of a sword hand.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth

“He held out a hand, summoning Oathbringer. “I am not ashamed of what I have become,” he shouted, and found it to be true. It felt so strange to be free of guilt. “Other men may debase themselves to destroy me. Let them have their glory. For I will retain mine!”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“The real her was a bruised and sorry thing, painted up all pretty, but inside a horrid mess.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer