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41 " Vick learned long ago that might have is a game with no winners. Few games do have winners, in the end. "
― Joe Abercrombie , A Little Hatred (The Age of Madness, #1)
42 " Guilt is a luxury reserved for those still breathing and with no unbearable pain, cold or hunger demanding all their fickle attention. Long as guilt's your biggest problem, girl..." Rikke saw the faint gleam of Isern's teeth in the gathering darkness. "Things can't be that bad". "
43 " A coward’s just a man with the proper respect for sharp metal, "
44 " Truly clever things are said with short words. Long ones are used to hide stupidity "
45 " People liked to think of beauty as some natural gift, but Savine firmly believed that just about anyone could be beautiful, if they worked hard at it and spent enough money. It was merely a question of emphasising the good, disguising the bad and painfully squeezing the average into the most impressive configuration. Very much like business, really. "
46 " But the risk of making any choice is always that you might make the wrong one. We must make our choices nonetheless. Fear of being a grown-up is a poor reason to remain a child. "
47 " It’s a fool who makes folk choose too often between loyalty and good sense. "
48 " Battles may sometimes be won by the brave, but wars are always won by the clever. "
49 " He's a bloody idiot who knows nothing about anything, but he was born with a cock, so he gets to decide for all of us. "
50 " There were too many bad men in the North and Caul Shivers, by most accounts, was one of the very worst. Bad men are a terrible curse, no doubt, right up until you’re in bad trouble and there’s one on your side. Then they’re the best thing ever. "
51 " Suddenly he felt that there had been so much he needed to say to his father. He had always supposed they would discuss the important things later. The profound things. But it would never happen. There had only been a fixed time in his presence, and Orso had pissed it all away talking about the weather, and there would be no more. "
52 " Knowledge isn’t always a gift, d’you see? Sometimes it’s better we be swaddled in the comforting darkness of ignorance. "
53 " Huh. Since we've got all the answers, I sometimes wonder why we follow these bastards.""I hear a lot of talk about loyalty.""Since we’ve a dozen dead masters between us, and both had a hand in more’n one of the downfalls, I feel no shame in saying that loyalty is overrated. "
54 " The Dogman?" He looked grey. Grey-clothed, grey-haired, grey-faced, like the life had leaked out of him to leave a wispy husk a sudden gust might whisk away. "The man looks a touch past his best."Shivers cast a lazy eye towards Scale, and back. He had a way of saying a lot with a few words. "Least he had one. "
55 " The sad truth is that pretty people can slide through all kinds of scrapes that’d end very badly for the ugly. "
56 " Fighting every fight you’re offered doesn’t make you a big man, it makes you a fool. "
57 " You killed him all to bits, and robbed everyone who knew him, and cut all the good he might ever do out of the world. "
58 " Always the ones quickest to insults got the thinnest skin, for some reason. "
59 " No one remembers how the fight was won. I won. No one cares how. "
60 " Aye, well, one person’s mad is another’s remarkable. "