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Take a rest and the world catches up with you. Lesson in life - keep moving.

We're going to need a bigger army," I said.

Give us everything we ask for and suddenly it's too much.

Even Eden had a snake problem. The

A consequence of boredom is that a man is forced to look either to the future or the past, or sideways into his imagination.

Terror and entertainment are weapons of statehood,

The boy, not 'my son.' I didn't miss that edge.

What made my loss, my pain, any more important than everyone else's.

That was just how we spoke. Every conversation a game of poker, every line a bet or a raise, a bluff or a call.

I don't know what a bike is but it sounds painful.

When you take a woman away from her man, what you get is a woman who can be taken away from her man.

If the sins of the flesh ever got old I didn't ever want enough years on me to know it.

The future is a dark place. We all die there.

Men are many and take strength as a challenge, difference as a crime.

Perhaps he just needed something to worry about again, so he could stop worrying.

Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.

Running ain't no bad thing. Leastways if you run in the right direction.

Never go questing without a bit of rope, at least that's how the stories have it.

After all, getting everything you wish for is nearly as dire a curse as having all your dreams come true.

War, my friends, is a thing of beauty. Those as says otherwise are losing.

You can win the victories you seek, Jorg. But only if you find better reasons to want them.

THERE IS IN every delicate thing, no matter how precious, nor how beautiful, a challenge. Break me. No

A man cannot take on new burdens of debt at every turn or he will buckle beneath the weight and be unable to move.

Always take the money, Hennan offered with a small grin.

Never drink small if it's at someone else's expense.

I had dug myself into Hell by not having the bravery to admit my cowardice. I resolved not to get into a similar situation again.

Cowards should be treated with respect. Cowards best know how to hurt. Corner one at your peril.

I studied in the mathema, even pieced together a little of their door.

A bit of pain's just what we need: to cauterize the wound, burn out the infection.

I try to be a fair man, to live with honour, but come against me armed and looking to take my life, and you will not walk away again.

Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?

Decadence begins when the budget to beautify a man's home exceeds the coin spent to ensure its defense.

Orrin of Arrow might have given them bread. He might have resolved to change this place. I just walk through it. Later I will scrape it from my shoes.

Gomst's mouth framed a 'no', but every other muscle in him said 'yes'. You'd think priests would be better liars, what with their jobs and all.

They say that time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

All of us fractured, awkward collages of experience wrapped tight to present a defensible face to the world.

I've learned to wear my face as a mask, and generally I can write what I choose on it.

I knew myself broken, to burn over every refusal, to feel my blood rise at the slightest provocation, but knowing and fixing are different things.

Whatever you do in dangerous situations, the main thing is to do it quickly.

Superstition though does tend to have a sharp end, and I didn't want to find myself impaled on it.

Brother Maical's wisdom lies in knowing he is not clever and letting himself be led. The foolishness of mankind is that we do not do the same.

Sometimes the world slows and you notice every small thing, as if you stood between two beats of eternity's heart.

A practised liar gets good at noticing the failings of those with less practice.

We weren't meant to live forever, nor dwell in solitude. A life without change is no life.

I was born for killing - the gods made me to ruin.

Tents are boasters, telling exaggerated tales of the weather they save you from.

Churchmen, eh? Love one minute, forgiveness the next, and then it's eternity on fire.

In battle though his hands grow clever, and you'd think him whole, until the din fades, the dying fall, and Maical wanders the fields weeping.

Bravery is just a different kind of broken.

What saves us all are the deeds of fools as often as the acts of the wise.

You can't grow if you're constantly defined by this collection of frozen moments that you keep returning to. And if you can't grow, you're not alive.

I've never seen a man who understands so little about women and yet is so led about by them.

Sometimes I feel the need of an avalanche within me.

There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.

even the most sacred bonds could be broken under enough stress.

I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design.

Whilst running away is a great strategy, a good coward always takes the unfair advantage.

You can look after this knight's soul, Father. The sins of the flesh though - they're all mine.

I manage to read about one book a month, all fantasy these days.

I have been too young to know, and I have been too old to care. It's in that oh so narrow slice between that memories are made.

Each hour became a process of taking a dull future and squeezing it into a dull past through the narrow slot of the moment

A sensible man may fear certain possibilities, but don't let fear turn possibility into certainty.

Some people are born to rub you the wrong way. Brother Gemt was born to rub the world the wrong way.

I'm not a thief.' Snorri lowered his brows. 'All right, we'll call it pillage,

And what makes us human is that sometimes we snap. And in that moment of release we're closer to gods than we know.

I'm not him because we die a little every day and by degrees we're reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars. I

The best liars always tell the truth - they just choose which parts.

You have my advice. Carry it with you. It won't slow you down.

Nothing like a night of whoring to turn a man soft.

Jesu, but you're one hideous offence to the eye." I could tell he was going to kill me, so no point in being tactful.

Maeres's companion, though, he looked like the sort of man who would drown kittens recreationally.

When the person you hit doesn't have the grace to fall over, it's generally best to have a backup plan.

I fell asleep to the faint sounds of the nonsense doggerel Merican Pie.

Nature shaped the claw to trap, and the tooth to kill, but the thorn ... the thorn's only purpose is to hurt.

Of course you have a boat. You're a Viking.

Single combat? We're leaving.

A strange thing - nails will hold a building together, but there's nothing better for taking a man apart.

Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them. "Why

Some men just want to watch the world burn." He grinned. "I'm the fire." "That you are, brother, and which of us is worse?

It's harder to forgive someone else your own sins than those uniquely theirs. Much harder.

I held to my anger, drank from my well of poison. These things are not good things, but at least they're mine.

The comfort of shaving with your knife is in the knowing that it is honed to perfection.

Assassination is murder with a touch more precision. Brother Sim is precise.

a glorious laughing ecstasy of rage.

I feel as though I'm playing a part like those mummers who travel the roads, only I don't know the words properly, or how I'm supposed to act.

But sometimes it's easier to love someone who has flaws you can forgive in return for their forgiving yours.

A Dark time comes.
My time.
If it offends you.
Stop Me.

She had the eyes of everyone who ever cared.

Sometimes my lies impressed the hell out of me.

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

Snow makes a soft bed, but no man wakes from it. That was the wisdom of the North.

Pride lets a man be skewered on the point of other people's expectations.

Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.

My traditional moment of triumph at escaping yet again was curtailed by a muscular arm that reached from the darkness and yanked me to one side.

And in my experience, any monster that talks in a human voice, is human. Or was.

Shame can exert as much pressure as anger.

When a man can't trust his eyes what does he fall back on . . . and what does the choice he makes reveal about him?

Every man has his thorns, not of him, but in him, deep as bones.

A man can drown in shades of grey.

Part of the art of survival as a coward is not letting things get to the point where that cowardice is exposed.