The Heroes (First Law World, #5) QUOTES

41 " Anyway, it seems to me a man can do an awful lot of evil in no time at all. Swing of a blade is all it takes. Doing good needs time. And all manner of complicated efforts. Most men don't have the patience for it. 'Specially not these days. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Heroes (First Law World, #5)

42 " Patience is as fearsome a weapon as rage. More so, in fact, 'cause fewer men have it. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Heroes (First Law World, #5)

43 " Me atrevería a decir que un hechicero puede llegar a ser útil y demás, pero, o sea, ¿siempre tienen que actuar de una manera tan puñeteramente rara? "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Heroes (First Law World, #5)

44 " What is love anyway, but finding someone who suits you? Someone who makes up for your shortcomings? Someone you can work with. Work on. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Heroes (First Law World, #5)

45 " Strange, to lock men up for thieving when the whole army lived on robbery. To dangle men for murder when they were all at the business of killing. What makes a crime in a time when men take what they please from who they please? "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Heroes (First Law World, #5)

46 " Just keep in mind what Rudd Threetrees once told me. Let’s us get them killed, and not the other way round.’ Wonderful grinned. ‘Best damn advice about war I ever heard. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Heroes (First Law World, #5)

47 " It's an awful fine line between being raised above folk like a leader and being raised above ´em like a hanged man on display. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Heroes (First Law World, #5)

48 " Aliz sighed. “War is terrible, isn’t it?” “It blights the landscape, throttles commerce and industry, kills the innocent and rewards the guilty, thrusts honest men into poverty and lines the pockets of profiteers, and in the end produces nothing but corpses, monuments and tall tales. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Heroes (First Law World, #5)

49 " If you can’t make your enemies trust you, you can at least make them mistrust each other. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Heroes (First Law World, #5)

50 " - Виж сега - поде той. - Човек непрекъснато си мисли колко е глупав този или онзи. Пияният старец. Женорята по селата. Децата, които замерят с камъни птиците. Такъв е животът. Глупост и суета, самолюбие и безхаберие. Колко много дребнавост, колко много глупост по този свят. Но на война, казваш си, ще е различно. По-добре ще е. Смъртта дебне от всяко кътче, трудности безброй и коварен враг, но ние сме мъже, ще ги посрещнем рамо до рамо, заедно, като един. Ще трябва да мислят двойно повече хората, казваш си ти, да действат по-бързо, да бъдат по-добри... Герои. - Той започна да смъква един по един вързопите от седлото на коня си. - Но не. Всичко си е както преди, съвсем същото. Всъщност поради цялото това напрежение, тревогите, страха е дори по-лошо. Малцина мислят трезво, когато стане напечено. Ето защо на война хората дори са още по-глупави. Мислят единствено как да избегнат вината за това или онова, как да се докопат до славата, как да отърват кожата, но никога как да стане нещо както трябва. Няма друга професия, която така лесно да прощава глупостта, както войнишката. Няма такава, която да я насърчава повече. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Heroes (First Law World, #5)

51 " I’m not sir, I’m Corporal Tunny.’ ‘Sorry, Corporal Tunny.’ ‘Now look. I don’t want you here and you don’t want to be here—’ ‘I want to be here,’ said Lederlingen. ‘You do?’ ‘Volunteered.’ A trace of pride in his voice. ‘Vol … un … teered?’ Tunny wrestled with the word as if it belonged to a foreign language. ‘So they do exist. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Heroes (First Law World, #5)

52 " The definition of all right changes with the passing winters, I find. I'm about all right by the standards of the last few days. Twenty years ago I'd have considered this close to death. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Heroes (First Law World, #5)

53 " But it's 'cause real life is what it is that a man needs daydreams. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Heroes (First Law World, #5)

54 " War’s ninety-nine parts boredom and, now and then, one part arse-opening terror. Craw had a powerful sense one of those was about to drop on him from a height. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Heroes (First Law World, #5)

55 " But it’s ’cause real life is what it is that a man needs daydreams. Most "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Heroes (First Law World, #5)

56 " When you’re planning what to do, always think of doing nothing first, see where that gets you. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Heroes (First Law World, #5)

57 " Armour is part of a state of mind in which you admit the possibility of being hit "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Heroes (First Law World, #5)

58 " Some men are made for doing violence. Some are meant for planning it. Then there are a special few whose talent is for taking the credit. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Heroes (First Law World, #5)

59 " If I can live with having this face, they can live with looking at it. That or they can get fucked. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Heroes (First Law World, #5)

60 " Oftentimes,’ murmured Whirrun, ‘a man’s better served embracing his pain than trying to escape it. Things are smaller when you face ’em. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Heroes (First Law World, #5)