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Valon4ego:
Nice one Bro. I've read all the books you mentioned except the last one. How good is the book?

Thanks. It's good, violent Sci-fi action, so if you like fights and lots of technical stuff then it's for you

"Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes."

“ Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. Please DO NOT TOUCH',the paint wouldn't even have time to dry."

-------Terry Pratchett, Discworld



"Life before death, Strength before Weakness, Journey before Destination"

“ It's easy to believe in something when you win all the time...The losses are what define a man's faith."

Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself."

---Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, Mistborn



"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-
death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

“This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.”


----- Frank Herbert, Dune




“What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms . . . or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.”

"Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you."

-----George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.....Listen - I believe that people are perfectable, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkled lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women.......
I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative.
I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do....... I believe that anyone who says sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too.
I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies...... I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it."

--------Neil Gaiman, American Gods



“If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?”

“ I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them."

The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns.Then strikes."
-----Joe Abercrombie, The First Law


“Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. true courage is about facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right."
--------Robin Hobb, The Mad Ship


"Friendships take minutes to make, moments to break, years to repair "

"The measure of a man is what he does when he has power"
---Pierce Brown, Red Rising

" Only the fallen can rise again"

--------Steven Erikson, Malazan Book of the Fallen

And my personal favourite

"The personal, as everyone's so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here – it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide out from under with a wink and a grin. If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them. Make it personal. Do as much damage as you can. Get your message across. That way you stand a far better chance of being taken seriously next time. Of being considered dangerous. And make no mistake about this: being taken seriously, being considered dangerous, marks the difference – the only difference in their eyes – between players and little people. Players they will make deals with. Little people they liquidate. And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement,your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it's just business, it's politics, it's the way of the world, it's a tough life, and that it's nothing personal. Well, Bleep them. Make it personal."

-------Richard Morgan, Altered Carbon