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“There is only now, this moment, and the one that follows…”
― John Gwynne, Valor

“We are cursed to be the sum of our deeds, black as they may be. They are like an arrow: once the shot is made, there is no escaping the consequences.”
― R.J. Barker, Blood of Assassins

“This is a place where the sky meets the land. A rancid yellow line where one would be indistinguishable from the other if not for the languid movement of the yellow clouds crawling across the sky, desperate, but too sickly, to escape.”
― R.J. Barker, King of Assassins

“As Finiless wrote, ‘More could not be gotten though the world be emptied to the breath of time.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Theft of Swords

“My father taught me that a man is only your enemy until he falls.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Rise of Empire

“A knight should always work for the good of the king third, the betterment of the kingdom second, but always place what is right first.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Heir of Novron

“Happiness comes from moving toward something. When you run away, ofttimes you bring your misery with you.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Heir of Novron

“What is the advantage of fear, or the benefit of regret, or the bonus of granting misery a foothold even if death is embracing you? My old abbot used to say, ‘Life is only precious if you wish it to be.’ I look at it like the last bite of a wonderful meal—do you enjoy it, or does the knowledge that there is no more to follow make it so bitter that you would ruin the experience?”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Heir of Novron

“The world’s a miserable place, kid. Give it any chance and it will kill you and not always with a blade or a cough. You know, there’s a reason men prefer to die in battle—living can sometimes be worse.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, The Rose and the Thorn

“Royce had the hearing of a bat. He could practically listen in on what was happening tomorrow.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, The Death of Dulgath

“But everyone believes in something, you know? And what we choose to believe in says a lot—not only about the kind of people we are, but about the kind of people we want to be, and the kind of world we want to live in.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, The Death of Dulgath

“Age, she realized with some regret, had diluted her need for perfection.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, The Disappearance of Winter's Daughter

“The young were fountains of energy and vigor, running blind sprints into imagined lands.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, The Disappearance of Winter's Daughter

“Other people’s ignorance is always a moneymaker, remember that.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, The Disappearance of Winter's Daughter

“Erika laughed, a sound like wind chimes in a light breeze.”
― Brian McClellan, The Powder Mage Novella Collection #1: Stories from the Powder Mage Universe

“Steel, speed, and stealth for a hit. Never spells. And sure as Hells never fire.”
― Paul S. Kemp, Twilight Falling

“Only priests are wise enough to fear, rather than covet, the gifts the gods may give.”
― Paul S. Kemp, Twilight Falling

“He eyed Riven. “This gnoll is legitimate?” “I verified that independently,” Riven said.”
― Paul S. Kemp, Twilight Falling

“Pilgrims, petitioners, and priests crowded the stone-flagged avenue, praying, preaching, and proselytizing.”
― Paul S. Kemp, Midnight's Mask

“The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.”
― Randall Jarrell

“Perhaps there are people who know that they have nothing more to look for from those with whom they live; they have shown the emptiness of their hearts to their housemates, and in their secret selves they are conscious that they are severely judged, and that they deserve to be judged severely; but still they feel an unconquerable craving for praises that they do not hear, or they are consumed by a desire to appear to possess, in the eyes of a new audience, the qualities which they have not, hoping to win the admiration or affection of strangers at the risk of forfeiting it again some day. Or, once more, there are other mercenary natures who never do a kindness to a friend or a relation simply because these have a claim upon them, while a service done to a stranger brings its reward to self-love. Such natures feel but little affection for those who are nearest to them; they keep their kindness for remoter circles of acquaintance, and show most to those who dwell on its utmost limits.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

“The mud splashes you as you drive through it in your carriage—you are a respectable person; you go afoot and are splashed—you are a scoundrel”
― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
― Albert Einstein

“You didn’t get to be the villain of one story, she supposed, unless you were the hero of another.”
― Nicholas Eames, Bloody Rose

“the sky to the east glowered like a priest when a harlot came to worship.”
― Nicholas Eames, Bloody Rose

“The world is big, the young are restless, and girls just want to have fun.”
― Nicholas Eames, Bloody Rose

“And to the swell of that horrid tune, legs kicking, face purpling, her father had begun dancing.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“May Our Lady be late when she finds you.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“A traitor’s just a patriot on the wrong side of winning.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“Never let your face tell a secret your lips should not.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight