Random Book Quotes

Quotes from books I've read. There is no theme. 

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“We place such a crushing burden on knights,” I said. “We tell them they’re supposed to be heroes, defenders of the realm, people of superior character. Then we send them into a slaughter and force them to butcher. They experience fear. They exist in constant vigilance, always ready to fight for their lives. It exhausts their body and soul. They watch their friends bleed out and die, and they have no time to grieve. Nobody warns them about this. Nobody sings songs about a young man trying to push his guts back into his stomach, or being so scared that the world turns dark, or being knocked off your horse and drowning in a muddy field in heavy armor while riders stomp on your back.”

Ilona Andrews, This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Maggie the Undying, #1)

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War wasn’t like the stories made it seem: all dramatic speeches and glorious battles. Mostly it was just ordinary people doing violent things because their leaders had decided it was necessary.

Kalzara, Demonic Sect Elder and the Great War

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And he had learned another lesson: wealth, like power, needed protection. A true businessman was a guardian who should be prepared to defend what he built.

Extra26, Dao of Money

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The end of humanity doesn't erase the fact of our existence, any more than this last chapter erases this whole book, any more than a period erases a sentence.

Katy Doughty,How to Survive the End of the World: A Graphic Exploration of How to (Maybe) Avoid Extinction

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We could thus be accused of applying a double standard. In the case of human children, we admit a gradation. In the case of animals, we assert: either they have a concept of death equivalent to the average adult human’s or they lack a concept of death. All or nothing, yes or no, black or white, pizza with pineapple or sanity.

Susana Monsó, Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death

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Even if I knew something dreadful was on the horizon and tried to hide in the smallest of nooks, fate would still find me. We all carried our destinies, like heavy invisible luggage, and no amount of running could keep it at bay forever.

Mangowo, The Dragon Heir: Wraithscale

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“I wonder how much of a person is simply fabricated by others,” she said. “And think about this: None of us see the same person in the exact same way. We bring ourselves into the equation. So an individual is never really an individual.”

Anne Frasier, The Body Reader (Detective Jude Fontaine Mysteries, #1)

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“Without proper procedures, the court would devolve into arbitrary enforcement based on individual enforcers’ preferences. The bureaucracy ensures fairness.”

Kalzara, Demonic Sect Elder and the Great War

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Still, if animals do have the capability to communicate with us with at least some sense of agency and intention, then we are surely obliged to facilitate that.

Arik Kershenbaum, Why Animals Talk: The New Science of Animal Communication

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You might be shocked by how much a little dollop of butter can smooth everything out and amplify flavors. When I was in culinary school, someone asked how much butter to add to a sauce and the chef shrugged and said “up to a half cup,” which is an entire stick, so don’t ever feel bad about liberal butter usage. Adding a little butter to a sauce or saucy dish to finish it, by the way, is a French technique called monter au beurre, so actually when you put butter on noodles, rice, oatmeal, or vegetables you are being a chef.

Margaret Eby, You Gotta Eat: Real-Life Strategies for Feeding Yourself When Cooking Feels Impossible

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Looking at history through any single lens creates distortions, because history is too complex for any one way of looking to suffice.

John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

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The truth was, even the lofty required validation from the masses they deemed beneath them.

Extra26, Dao of Money

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Like, you’re so clueless that clues consider you an endangered species!

L. Eclaire, The Reluctant Dungeon: A LitRPG Adventure

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So the plan wasn’t a clusterfuck, it was just circling the clusterfuck target zone, getting ready to come in for a landing.

Martha Wells, Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

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Sometimes, even the most insignificant things could be useful when used correctly.

Extra26, Dao of Money

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When confronted by a dragon, the first thing you must do is compliment its scales. Dragons are vain creatures, you see. A well-placed compliment can mean the difference between being eaten and being … well, only slightly singed.

Kalzara, Cultivation Is a Game: A Xianxia LitRPG

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“History can always be rewritten. There’s no room for fear on the path of a legend.”

Yu Ryeo Han, Lout of Count's Family (Novel) Vol. 7