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One is always ready for war." Uthil gently twisted the pommel of his sword so the naked blade flashed in the gloom. "Or never.
— Joe Abercrombie
Pain is the best schoolmaster, as you will soon discover.
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Somewhere in the shadows a clock vomited up a few sluggish chimes.
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His face was like a whipped back, criss-crossed with ragged scars. His
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A man who doesn't want opinions should keep his own mouth shut.
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We all got our reasons ... good men and bad men. It's all a matter of where you stand.
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exceeded every expectation. It was built on a wide promontory that
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The Bloody-Nine opened his mouth, and shrieked out all of his bottomless love and his endless hate in one long wail.
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I always thought of being together as the end of the work. Turns out it's where the work starts.
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Every hero is someone's villain.
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Well, that's the end of that, I reckon. You know what, Furious?" And he grinned sideways at West. "I'm getting to like you, boy.
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I find hope is best abandoned early,' muttered Temple.
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People have often accused me of inconsistency but i feel that i have always, at any given junction, done the same thing. Exactly what i pleased.
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Great men have great faults.
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I apologise, your Highness. Murder can be a painful business.
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The faster you run from the past, the faster it catches you. All you can do is turn to face it. Embrace it. Try and meet the future wiser for it.
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The more you kill, the better you get at it. And the better you get at killing, the less use you are for anything else.
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To draw from the world below is fraught with peril. The Magus
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Some things have to be done. It's better to do them, than to live with the fear of them.
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The best steel doesn't always shine the brightest.
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He thinks before he speaks, then says no more than he has to.
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You will get such flattery as you deserve, and my foot in your arse the rest of the time.
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Men are brittle, I reckon. They don't bend into new shapes. They get broken into them. Crushed into them.
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A whole new thing. A forging of the humble parts of bread and cheese into a greater whole. I call it ... a cheese-trap.
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Say one thing for Logen Ninefingers, say he's a lover.
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Hand of iron! Head of iron! Heart of iron!" And he lashed blindly with his sword over the shield wall. "Your death comes, sang the hundred!
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He's living in a dream! Pandered to, and coddled, and utterly spoiled his whole life! That boy and the real world are entire strangers to one another!
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This was a place of learning, and wonder, and great beauty.''Time has not been kind to the place.'
'Time is never kind. — Joe Abercrombie
I span the entire geek spectrum.
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Mercy and weakness are the same thing in war, and there's no prize for nice behavior.
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Worry less about what the gods might do and more about what you can,
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The wise wait for their moment, but never let it pass.
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It's what you give out that makes a man, not what you get back.
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He had learned long ago that life became much easier if you ignored what was not right before you.
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sad to say, not all men that die are killed by me.
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King Uthil says steel is the answer. I say his sight is short. Dust is the last answer to every question, now and always.
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Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.
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It is my sad observation that some men always want more.
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War is no place for good men.
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The older you get, the more swiftly the years pass. It's easy to forget how quickly people die.
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There can be no peace with the damn Vanstermen,
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Just keep your mouth shut and smile. That's always good advice.' Jezal
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Gold and silver is everything to everyone. Some of us have enough of it to pretend otherwise.
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Some men laugh easily. It makes them winning dinner companions.
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There was nothing to be gained by losing his temper. There was never anything to be gained by that.
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Broken hearts heal with time, but broken teeth never do.
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Water dripping from his slapping fruits
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Cleverness is no guarantee of sensible behaviour.
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Strange how, as long as the hardship lasts, we can stand it. As soon as the crisis is over, the strength all leeches away in an instant.
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There aren't many good things don't have a splinter of selfishness in them somewhere, after all.
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Enemies are the price of success.
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Still, it was better to swear an oath and never follow through than not even to bother with the oath. Wasn't it?
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It was like staring at a whitewashed wall, but without all the emotion
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A man doesn't put on a mask unless he's got some dark work in mind.
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Courage can come fro many places, and be made of many things, and yesterday's coward can become tomorrow's hero in an instant if the time is right.
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A man lost in the desert must take such water as he is offered, no matter who it comes from.
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That's what an idiot does when he gets angry. He destroys whatever's nearest, even if it's his own house!
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Heresy and progress often look much alike.
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You are as wise as you are beautiful, Thorn Bathu.
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Conscience and the cock-rot are hardly equivalent,' snapped Lorsen.'Indeed,' said Cosca, significantly. 'The cock-rot is rarely fatal. — Joe Abercrombie
Once your hands get bloody it ain't so easy to get 'em clean.
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Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.
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You are a gentleman, sir,' muttered Cosca. 'I am a murderer.' 'I see no reason why a man cannot be both . . .
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So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You're a hero.
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Doing better next time. That's what life is.
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Enough pain makes a coward of anyone.
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'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin with Everest.
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A few glasses of wine can be the difference between finding a man a hilarious companion or an insufferable moron.
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Knowledge is so often the antidote to fear. But not here. Not now.
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Plans have a way of coming apart when you lean om 'em
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Some men you stick to right off. But it's those that take time to stick that stick longest.
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They say a man lost in the desert must take such water as he is offered, no matter who it comes from. I
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I don't see what I want to see, I see what I need to see. If you don't like it, see something else
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Power makes all things right. That is my first law, and my last. That is the only law that I acknowledge.
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Treat a man like a dog and sooner or later he'll bite you,
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By swap news do you mean drink?" "I do, and that excessively.
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But I guess you learn to stop hoping, after a while. Life teaches you to expect the worst, eh?
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What better foundation for an alliance than mutual hatred and suspicion?
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So the fox killed his brother, the wolf. (Mother Scaer)
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Probably been sure he'd got the right god, the right king, the right cause. Everyone finds a way to make their side the right one, after all.
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You have to realistic about these things.
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Oh well," sighed Glokta. "A man has to have hope doesn't he?""Of course sir," muttered the servant, heading for the door.
Does he? — Joe Abercrombie
Jaud planted his fists on his hips. "You made it, then." "Some turds float," said Rulf. Ankran
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What is the world coming to when an honest man cannot burn corpses without suspicion? asked Nothing.
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How dare you presume to be devoted to me, peasant? You're like a tick devoted to a tiger!
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You keep an oath not for the oath but for yourself
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Only friends get left behind. Enemies are always at your heels. The
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When you're in hell, only a devil can point the way out.
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A whore with a veil is mysterious. God's ways appear to be ... insane.
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