What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.
If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.
Life is nothing in itself. It’s a place marker that proves who’s winning, and we are the winners. We are always the winners. There is nothing but the winning. Even winning means nothing. We win because it’s an insult to lose. The ends don’t justify the means. The means don’t justify the ends. There is no one to justify to. There is no justice. ~ Durzo Blint
Delusional people tend to believe in what they’re doing.
Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.
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.
The truth was, Azoth hated Azoth. Azoth was a coward, passive, weak, afraid, disloyal. Azoth had hesitated. Master Blint didn’t know it, but the poisons on the needle had killed Azoth. He was Kylar now, and Kylar would be everything Azoth hadn’t dared to be.
A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions – Durzo Blint
You have to be a little bad to make history.
The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.
Maybe when you were born on the top of the mountain you could pretend the mountain didn’t matter, but those who climbed it and those born at its base who could never climb at all knew differently.
You’ll come with us, she said. Sure, Gavin said. It wasn’t a request. Yes it was, Gavin said. When you don’t have power to compel obedience, by definition you’re making a request.
