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“Well. What can we do, except try to do better?”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself

“Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself

“The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem”
― Captain Jack Sparrow

“Learning starts with failure.”
― Josiah Bancroft, Senlin Ascends

“It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes

“The easiest way to do anything is properly.”
― K. J. Parker, The Proof House

“There might not be a meaning to the world, or in it, but that does not mean that what we do has no meaning.”
― Mark Lawrence, Holy Sister

“Common sense dictates that any voice you hear inside your head must be just you, thinking; so, if you know it’s just you and you know you’re basically an idiot, what possesses you to do what the stupid voice tells you?”
― K.J. Parker, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City

“I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. The dead one tried to show me hell, but it was a pale imitation of the horror I can paint on the darkness in a quiet moment.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

“The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes

“Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

“When you're in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It's a wonder to me how few people apply that same logic to their lives.”
― Mark Lawrence, Emperor of Thorns

“Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man’s memories and you take all of him. Chip away a memory at a time and you destroy him as surely as if you hammered nail after nail through his skull.”
― Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

“A man is made of memories. It is all we are. Captured moments, the smell of a place, scenes played out time and again on a small stage. We are memories, strung on storylines--the tales we tell ourselves about ourselves, falling through our lives into tomorrow.”
― Mark Lawrence

“You have to realistic about these things.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“Sometimes it doesn't matter too much what choice you make, as long as you make it quick and stick to it.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“Children are dying."
Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.”
― Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates

“All men will dig their heels in if pushed enough. All men will reach the point that they say "no" for no reason other than opposition, for no reason other than the word fits their mouth, and tastes as good as it sounds.”
― Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

“The hardest lesson I ever learned was that every bad thing you see a friend do to someone else they will some day do to you.”
― Mark Lawrence, Red Sister

“A life without friends means death without company. (Adiskidegabeko bizita, auzogabeko heriotza.) —BASQUE PROVERB”
― Craig Johnson, The Walt Longmire Mystery Series Boxed Set Volume 1-4

“Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.”
― Robin Hobb, The Mad Ship

“Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

“Stop longing. You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

“Not being able to think of a reply is not the same thing as accepting another's words.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Quest

“Thinking is not always...comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting.”
― Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin

“We shouldn't have to go around congratulating each other for behaving with basic human dignity.”
― Josiah Bancroft, Senlin Ascends

“It is easier to accept who you’ve become than to recollect who you were.”
― Josiah Bancroft, Senlin Ascends

“Even beauty diminishes with study. It is better to glance than gawk.”
― Josiah Bancroft, Senlin Ascends

“When you tell a lie, you have to sound like you believe it. Goes double for the ones you tell yourself.”
― Joe Abercrombie, A Little Hatred

“The beauty o’ making yourself a promise is that no one else complains if you break it.”
― Joe Abercrombie, A Little Hatred