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“If you always do the easier thing, then you cannot possibly remain steadfast when it becomes necessary to take a difficult stand. You must do what you know to be right. And you do know. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred you do know and you are just making excuses because the right thing is so hard, or just inconvenient.”
― Glen Cook, Water Sleeps

“I have always found the presumptions of others to be the best possible disguise—haven’t you?”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

“Please, sir.” Tisarwat seemed not to have heard either of them. “We can’t leave things the way they are, and I have an idea.” That got the translator’s full attention. She looked up from the game, frowned intently at Tisarwat. “What’s it like? Does it hurt?” Tisarwat only blinked at her. “Sometimes I think I might like to get an idea, but then it occurs to me that it’s exactly the sort of thing Dlique would do.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy

“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
― Eugene Field