John

“You've got to understand that the world's full of men who are little better than animals.... Problem is that a man is different from an animal. In the quiet afterward we know when we've done wrong.”
― David Anthony Durham, Acacia: The War with the Mein

“You can't help being young, but it's past time that you stopped being stupid.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

“Difficult" and "impossible" are cousins often mistaken for one another, with very little in common.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“Don't let anyone but a soldier tell you how to fight a war.”
― Nick Cole, The Old Man and the Wasteland