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Pacifism is a virtue indisguishable from cowardice.

A king made choices for other people based on information they didn't have. That was the burden of rule.

When you know a man's secrets, you have power over him. A man's secret is his weakness. Every man has a weakness, no matter ...

There's a reason theory and practice are two different words.

There's a divinity that shapes beauty from our rough hewn lives.

There's a hope that empowers, and a hope that enfeebles. Don't confuse them.

Less weight and less strength just means you need to be smarter.

Her body was more persuasive than a room full of scholars.

But emptiness can't be threatened. Emptiness holds nothing dear. Emptiness knows no fear.

Dangerous knowledge is often hidden under ponderous grammar and obscurantist vocabulary.

A wolf can be a wolfhound, son, but it can never be a lapdog.

Ecause the only kind of love I have to offer is stupid and blind and so deep and powerful that I feel like I'm cracking just to hold it in.

Escaping Neph's magic was impossible. He could sooner tear stars form the heavens.

Arrogance is a blindness we choose.

Dying well is easy,it only takes a moment of courage. It's living well that I couldn't do. What's death compared to that.

One doesn't sent a lion to kill a rat.

The choice to give up bitterness is not easy, but it is simple: peace or poison. And don't wait until you feel like making it. You never will.

When you deal with human beings, never count on logic or consistency.

As long as I'm in your heart, I'll never truly die.' Ha! Please don't keep me trapped in your heart after I die, girl. I get claustrophobic.

Do you know why you feel destined for something greater?"
"Why?" Kip asked, quiet, hopeful.
"Because you're an arrogant little shit.

You're amazing," Kylar said.
~I know.~
"Humble, too.

and transition from one to the other. Scrape

There is no hell but life, and death is worse.

I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity.

By what right do I bend men to my will? Or is there no right, only ability?

You don't need to like reality, only be strong enough to face it

What happens if you do nothing, nothing, there's a price and a terrible freedom to that

That's the burden of leadership, Logan: making the choice when none of the choices are good.

Not all shame comes from wrong doing and not all hiding comes from moral failure.

He wasn't afraid of death, but he was afraid of dying before he accomplished his purposes.

And what more could a man hope for but to conquer death?

Language isn't weird. People are weird. Language makes sense until people get their phoneme pukers on it." Teia

Analogies are lies grown-ups tell.

I was once the avatar of retribution. Now I just try to be polite.

Do you know what you can do to an enemy but not to a friend? Stab her in the back.

They were deeply in love. Smitten. At their age. Sad.

There is no cheating in war; there are only survivors and victims.

Sometimes duty required a man to do things he would do almost anything to avoid.

How can one love the light and live in darkness?

It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die

DON'T TOUCH MY HAIR!' she yelled.

Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.

The Philosopher said that a man alone is either a god or a monster. I'm no god.

Sometimes to love is easy, but to accept love is hard.

Analogies are lies grown-ups tell." "Why?

Hope is the lies we tell ourselves about the future.

You have to be a little bad to make history.

You got potential, Kip.
And you know what potential means? he replied.
Ain't done nothing yet.

The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.

Oh, my friend, what have you gone through that being called moral nearly makes you weep? Or was it being called friend?

We are the stories we tell about ourselves. But when those stories are lies, we are the most surprised of all.

despite the passage of time, it wasn't getting any better.

Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man's highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.

Our home is gone, but come home,

Come, the Devil's Highway awaits.

To be king means to accept that others will pay the price of your failures
and even your successes.

You were broken years ago and you healed hunched. And now you're broken again and trying to heal even more hunched.

Even winning means nothing. We win because it's an insult to lose.

The man loved language the way a wife beater loves his wife.

And what fun is it being a genius if no one appreciates you?

I was a bad child. Fortunately, I've come a long way since then. Now I'm a bad man.

I warned him, Kylar. She was a lovely, careless girl. The kind of woman born without a heart, so she couldn't imagine breaking anyone else's.

Look at your mistakes long enough to learn from them, then put them behind you.

Now you speak with the insight I'd expect from a woman. Which is to say none.

Were there socially accepted ways to curtail dull conversations?

May the sun smile upon you and all storms find you in port

There was something very fine about seeing a man damn himself.

I am the stupidest person I have ever met.

If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.

But after you know a man or a woman like that - after you wear their skin and walk a few miles in it, you can't help but love them -

Never tempt a man beyond what he can endure.

Sometimes life is our battlefield. We must do what we know to do, not what we want to

They made it so that we can't change it from within. They made it so we must kill to break it. If we be monsters, we're monsters made in their image.

This is why there are few prophets. We end up dead a lot. The truth is offensive to men who love darkness.

In suffering, we find the true measure of our strength.

Others always pay for my failures.

Kip looked up at him and grinned. Don't you know what I am? I'm the fucking turtle-bear.

It hurts to leave a lie, but it hurts more to live one.

Tell them the Night Angel walks. Tell them Justice is come.

Great beauties and stunningly handsome men were accorded virtues: people found them funnier, smarter, more insightful than they actually were.

Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.

All power is a test.

He is terribly bright; he is handsome; he is charming; and you have spoiled him horribly. In other words, he has all the makings of a true monster.

Survivors are willing to make sacrifices.

Desperate men fight best.

Light cannot be chained.

When you don't know what to do, do what's right and do what's in front of you. But not necessarily what's right in front of you.

I am simply competent ... Not a leader except when leadership is lacking.

Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren't taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint

It's easier to build a new culture on the graves of the dead than around the homes of the living.

When you surrender what isn't under your control, you're not giving up a crown, you're giving up a yoke.

If embarrassment were a muscle, I'd be huge.

Every act intends some good.

A whore's truth has too many sharp edges.

This world has only two kinds of people: villains and smiling villains.

You'd be surprised at what you'd do to stay alive.

We're victims of our own refined tastes.

To be a man is to bring together that which you should be and that which you are. Deception is darkness.

You're a great man, but only when seen from afar.

An oath you only keep when it's convenient isn't an oath at all.