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121 " Always been lean.” “Oh, me too.” And he patted his belly. “The body of a hero lies just below this carefully nurtured layer of fat.” She raised a brow. Clover loved to see things done well, and she’d a hell of a brow-raise, did Wonderful. “And what could possibly drag your fat this close to the fighting?” “Black Calder. He tells me you need help.” “That I’ll not deny. When does it get here? "
― Joe Abercrombie , A Little Hatred (The Age of Madness, #1)
122 " You should get married.” “So I can be ordered around by some idiot? Thank you, no.” “Then don’t marry an idiot. Marry a rich man who likes men. At least you’ll have that in common. "
123 " It is easy to smile at the bull you know is chained. "
124 " In case you never noticed, bards have a habit of dressing things up. There is a fine living, d’ya see, in songs about deep-wise witches, but in shitty idiots, less. "
125 " War?’‘It’s when a fight gets so big almost no one comes out of it well. "
126 " Is it gold?’ asked the lad.‘Copper,’ she lied, since gold is apt to turn unpleasant meetings into deadly ones. "
127 " A good liar lies as little as possible. "
128 " You can’t understand! You’re not...a man.’‘Had I been confused on that point, it was put beyond doubt when I pushed you out of my womb. Have you any notion how much you weighed as a baby? Spend two days shitting an anvil we’ll talk again. "
129 " Come at a man with a sword, he'll see you coming, and if a man you mean to kill you sees you coming then you're going about it all wrong. "
130 " If killing folk ever starts to right, you’ve a worse kind of problem. Guilt can sting, but you should be thankful for it.’‘Thankful?’‘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 big problem, girl...things can’t be that bad. "
131 " I wish I'd met you sooner,' he said. 'Things might be different.''You didn't and they're not. So let's take what we can get , eh? "
132 " We’re none of us hard as we seem. "
133 " who’s-the-biggest-cunt contest, wouldn’t you say?” Shivers slowly nodded. “A real arsehole’s parade.” “But then the arseholes tend to win, don’t they? "
134 " Sometimes pretty lies win the day. But sometimes ugly truths cut deeper. "
135 " And yet living this way did not make Savine sorry for the people who were forced to do it every day. Who did it in the many buildings just like this one she profited from all across the Union. It only made her desperate never to live this way herself again. Perhaps that made her selfish. Wicked. Evil, even. While she fled whimpering through the city on the day of the uprising, she had sworn to a God she did not believe in that she would be good, if it meant she could live. Now she was happy to be evil, if it meant she could be clean. "
136 " She found she had a great deal less courage altogether than she had smugly supposed while blackmailing investors, or choosing a wig, or pronouncing social death sentences in the salons of Adua. She had always reckoned herself such a gambler. No more audacious woman in the Union. Now she realised the games had always been rigged in her favour. She never had to gamble with her life before, and the stakes had risen suddenly far too high for her taste. "
137 " She had always reckoned herself such a gambler. No more audacious woman in the Union. Now she realised the games had always been rigged in her favour. She never had to gamble with her life before, and the stakes had risen suddenly far too high for her taste. "
138 " That’s kings for you. The shit ideas are always someone else’s. "
139 " Now she was happy to be evil, if it meant she could be clean. "
140 " No one was safe in Valbeck now. Perhaps no one ever truly was. Perhaps safety was a lie people told themselves so they could carry on. "