A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.

I’ll spend my life training just for the moment I have my chance at you. I’ll wait until you think I’ve forgotten today. I’ll wait until you think it was just a dumb guild rat’s threat. After I’m a master, you’ll jump at shadows for a while. But after you jump a dozen times and I’m not there, you won’t jump just once, and that’s when I’ll be there. I don’t care if you kill me at the same time. I’ll trade my life for yours.

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

Durzo pulled out a gold Gunder from his pouch. Crowns Roth wins, Castles I lose. He flipped the coin. It bounced on the table and, impossibly, landed on edge. There´s always another choice, Kylar said.

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.

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.