"Turn, Snow, and die."
A Song of Ice and Fire
George R.R. Martin

"Your life is yours alone. Rise up and live it."
The Sword of Truth
Terry Goodkind

"The sacrifice is not of your body,
it is... of my humanity."
Coldfire
C.S. Friedman

"this is a beautiful country."
John Brown's Last Words

"de omnibus dubitandum."
All is to be doubted.
Rene Descartes

Then Hoquin was enraged with those who questioned his
treatment of his Catalyst, and he resolved to make a
show of his authority over her. "Child she may be," he
declared, "And yet the burden is hers and it must be
borne. And nothing must make her question her role, or
sway her to save herself at the expense of condemning
the world."

And then he required of her that she go to her
parents, and deny them both, saying, "I have no mother,
I have no father. I am only the Catalyst of the White
Prophet Hoquin." And further she must say, "I give you
back the name you gave me. I am Redda no longer, but
Wild-eye, as Hoquin has made me." For he had named
her thus for her one eye that always peered to one side.

This she did not wish to do. She wept as she went,
she wept as she spoke the words, and she wept as she
returned. For two days and two nights, the tears did not
cease to flow from her eyes, and he allowed her this
mourning. Then Hoquin said to her, "Wild-eye, cease
your tears."

And she did. Because she must.

Farseer
Robin Hobb

"The causa sui is the best
self-contradiction that has been
conceived so far, it is a sort of
rape and perversion of logic, but the
extravagant pride of man has managed
to entangle itself profoundly
and frightfully with just this nonsense."
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche

For each ecstatic instant
We must an anguish pay
In keen and quivering ratio
To the ecstasy.
For each beloved hour
Sharp pittances of years,
Bitter contested farthings
And coffers heaped with tears.
Emily Dickinson

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he
himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze
long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche

"I know you have come to kill me. Shoot, coward. You are only going to kill a man."
Ernesto "Che" Guevara's Last Words

People are stupid... They will believe a lie because they
want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it
might be true.
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
Passion rules reason.
There is magic in sincere forgiveness, the magic to heal.
In forgiveness you grant, but more so, in forgiveness
you receive.
Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds
will betray a lie.
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
Life is the future, not the past.
Deserve Victory.
A contradiction cannot exist in reality. Not in part,
nor in whole.
Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to
one's self.
The Unwritten rule which must be experienced before true
understanding. Everything exists within us.
Wizard's Rules
Terry Goodkind

"Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end
until my death... I shall live and die at my post. I am
the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls.
I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that
brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the
shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life
and honor to the Night's Watch, for this night and all
the nights to come."
Vow of the Night Watch
George R. R. Martin

But it was all right, everything was all right, the
struggle was finished. He had won the victory over
himself. He loved Big Brother.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell

Under the spreading chestnut tree
I sold you and you sold me.
There lie they, and here lie we
Under the spreading chestnut tree.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell

It is true, I might have resisted forcibly with more or
less effect, might have run "amok" against society; but I
preferred that society should run "amok" against me, it
being the desperate party.
Walden
Henry David Thoreau

"You're a gentleman," they used to say.
"You shouldn't hack about with an axe;
that's not a gentleman's work."
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Il faut cultiver notre jardin."
"Let us cultivate our garden."
Candide
Voltaire

"Notice how exceedingly discreet our
author is. There has so far been no
Pope called Urban X. He hesitates to
ascribe a b*****d to an actual Pope.
What Discretion! What a tender
conscience he shows!"
Candide
Voltaire

"Amor, ch'a nullo amato amar perdona,
mi prese del costui piacer sì forte,
che, come vedi, ancor non m'abbandona."
"Love, which absolves no beloved one from loving,
seized me so strongly with his charm
that, as thou seest, it does not leave me yet."
The Inferno
Dante Alighieri

"The hour of departure has arrived,
and we go our ways — I to die, and
you to live. Which is better the
gods only know."
Socrates

"Democracy, which is a charming form
of government, full of variety and
disorder, and dispensing a sort of
equality to equals and unequaled alike."
The Republic
Plato

"A tragedy, then, is the imitation of an
action ... with incidents arousing pity
and fear, wherewith to accomplish its
catharsis of such emotions."
Aristotle

Benedick: "What, my dear Lady Disdain!
are you yet living?"
Beatrice: "Is it possible disdain should
die while she hath such meet food to feed
it as Signior Benedick? Courtesy itself
must convert to disdain, if you come in
her presence."
Much Ado About Nothing
William Shakespeare

"Yea, noise,then I'll be brief;
O, happy dagger!
This is thy sheath; there rest, and let me die."
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare

"Amor vincit omnia"
"Love conquers all"
Eclogues
Virgil

"If music be the food of love, play on."
The Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare