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1 " Every war carries within it the seeds of the next. "
― Joe Abercrombie , Best Served Cold
2 " The world is all change, my friend. We all would like to go back, but the past is done. We must look forwards. We must change ourselves, however painful it may be, or be left behind. "
3 " History is written by the victors. "
4 " One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great things. "
5 " Enough pain makes a coward of anyone. "
6 " Shivers heaved out a sigh. “Just trying to make tomorrow that bit better than today is all. I’m one of those … you’ve got a word for it, don’t you?”“Idiots?”He looked sideways at her. “It was a different one I had in mind.”“Optimists.”“That’s the one. I’m an optimist.”“How’s it working out for you?”“Not great, but I keep hoping.”“That’s optimists. You bastards never learn. "
7 " A set of huge marble busts stared smugly down from on high: great merchants and financiers of Styrian history, by the look of them. Criminals made heroes by colossal success. "
8 " Are you entirely sure of that knot?' asked Morveer. 'There is no place in the plan for a lengthy drop'.'Twenty-eight strides', said Friendly.'What?''The drop'.A brief pause, 'That is not helpful'. "
9 " The memories of our glories fade, and rot away into half-arsed anecdotes, thin and unconvincing as some other bastard's lies. The failures, the disappointments, the regrets, they stay raw as the moments they happened. "
10 " Men are brittle, I reckon. They don't bend into new shapes. They get broken into them. Crushed into them. "
11 " Monza never had understood why getting out a tit or two made for a better painting. But painters seemed to think it did, so tits is what you got. "
12 " Memories sharp enough to cut himself on - the smells, the sounds, the feel of the air on his skin, the desperate hope and mad anger. "
13 " It's a crime, when you think about how little time we get, that a man should ever be bored. When you are lying on your death bead, I expect you regret those weeks wasted more than your worst mistakes. "
14 " A man can forgive all manner of faults in beautiful women that in ugly men he find entirely beyond sufferance "
15 " I apologise, your Highness. Murder can be a painful business. "
16 " Bravery is the dead man’s virtue. "
17 " It was what you gave out that made a man, not what you got back. "
18 " Have a smile for breakfast, you'll be shitting joy by lunch. "
19 " Things aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact. The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into the grave. "
20 " To have a good enemy, choose a friend: he knows where to strike. "
