"The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know."

“Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.”

Source : Terry Brooks (2012). “A Knight Of The Word: The Word and the Void: Book Two”, p.124, Hachette UK

“With QE3, we are essentially being bought out with our own money...and unemployment is being used to facilitate this process in a very clever manner. Monetary inflation is currently being offset by labor deflation. The way you avoid collapse is by printing money and stealing assets. The way you avoid inflation is with labor deflation.”

“There's nothing worse than talking about yourself to find out that you're not that interesting.”

“Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.”

“She stretched out her hand, saying, “Vernon! My dear, what a delightful surprise!” “What’s surprising about it?” he enquired, lifting his black brows. “Didn’t you ask me to come?” The smile remained pinned to Lady Buxted’s lips, but she replied with more than a touch of acidity: “To be sure I did, but so many days ago that I supposed you had gone out of town!” “Oh, no!” he said, returning her smile with one of great sweetness.”

“Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.”

“I'll never be that trusting again, believing accountants and lawyers have my best interests at heart.”

“He will spit you and roast you with rosemary, and we will all sample your flesh tonight. Tomorrow you will be shat out into the snow. Your diplomacy is bold and edgy, sir.”

Source : Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.806, Del Rey