“Sometimes, son," my father said, prying my fingers free, "you have to help the heroes along.”
Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer
Source: Steelheart
“Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.”
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