Love is a madness. Love is Failer - Durzo Blint

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

It had better be. It doesn't do much when it's soft.

The duke sounded like he was trying to convince himself. “Have you ever done this before?” “Set up someone by pretending to be someone else? Sure. Pretended to get killed? Not so much.

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

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.

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