John

“Then you ought to know you can’t offload responsibility on someone else. You have to be able to take care of yourself when shit goes down.”
― Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

“Even for me. There’s nothing like the company of someone even more wretched than yourself to make you feel better. Trouble is, take their misery away and your own presses in twice as cold and dreary behind it.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“Monotony is boring, and besides, as the ancients loved to point out, expectations of what could be or what should be are the most common sources of our discontent. Expectations lead to disappointment, and disappointment leads to anger and resentment.”
― Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

“a man who doesn’t keep his word isn’t much of a man at all.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings