[quotes] A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin 1996

 

"'A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.'"

"'You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean that tin is useless.'" 

[quotes] Looking for Alaska - John Green 2005

 

"I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails."

"'You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.'"

"What is the most important question human beings must answer? Choose your question wisely, and then examine how Islam, Buddhism, and Christianity attempt to answer it."

"... but I wanted to trust her, and so I did."

"She said it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food."

"So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action."

"I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God."

"... we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth."

"We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken."