What Do You Think A Knight Is For, Girl? You Think It's All Taking Favors From Ladies And Looking Fine

What do you think a knight is for, girl? You think it's all taking favors from ladies and looking fine in a gold plate? Knights are for killing. I killed my first man at twelve. I've lost count of how many I've killed since then. High lords with old names, fat rich men dressed in velvet, knights puffed up like bladders with their honors, yes, and women and children, too-they're all meat, and I'm the butcher. Let them have their lands and their gods and their gold. Let them have their sers.

Sandor Clegane, A Song of Ice and Fire; George R. R. Martin

You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live.

Dream, The Sandman: Fables and Reflections Neil Gaiman

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.

Italian Proverb

Life is too short for chess.

Henry James Byron

They may be called the Palace Guard, the City Guard, or the Patrol. Whatever the name, their purpose in any work of heroic fantasy is identical: it is, round about Chapter Three (or ten minutes into the film) to rush into the room, attack the hero one at a time, and be slaughtered. No one ever asks them if they want to. This book is dedicated to those fine men.

Guards! Guards!; Terry Pratchett

The gods we prayed to when we were young used up their time so long ago. They cannot answer anymore.

The Sandman: The Kindly Ones Neil Gaiman