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The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness, #2) QUOTES

The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness, #2) QUOTES

1 " It's 'cause it can all go wrong so easily that you make every effort to be sure it goes right. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness, #2)

2 " One cannot despise a thing without acknowledging its importance. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness, #2)

3 " He doesn't look like much,' said Tallow.
'He'd be a poor assassin if he stood out. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness, #2)

4 " Yolk grinned. "If there's one thing I'm good at, it's doing things badly. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness, #2)

5 " Winning teaches you nothing,” said Tunny. “You see what a man really is when he loses. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness, #2)

6 " Tomorrow came, and it was much like yesterday. Just more so. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness, #2)

7 " life is the misery we endure between disappointments. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness, #2)

8 " Everyone should forgive themselves, Vick.” He gave her wrist another squeeze then let her go, looking out towards the lake again. “After all… no one else will. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness, #2)

9 " Hoping for a thing often seems the best way o’ bringing on the opposite "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness, #2)

10 " But then it’s difficult, isn’t it, to make a passionate argument for what you already have? So boring. Whereas the delightful alternative? A bouquet of promises! A sackful of dreams! A glorious ship of fantasies, undamaged by collision with actually getting anything done. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness, #2)

11 " We’re all like children, Rikke. The older you get, the more you realise the grown-ups won’t suddenly walk in and set things right. You want things right, you have to put ’em right yourself. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness, #2)

12 " You would’ve thought the more pain you suffered, the more you’d get used to it, but it was the other way around. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness, #2)

13 " Enemies are like furniture, aren't they? Better chosen for oneself than inherited. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness, #2)

14 " I find reputations rarely fit people all that well. What are they, after all, but costumes we put on to disguise ourselves? "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness, #2)

15 " Who says there even is a real Shenkt? People like things that are simple. Black and white. Good and evil. They want to make a choice and tell themselves they were right. But as His Eminence is fond of saying, the real world is painted in greys. The truth is complicated, full of mixed emotions and blurred outcomes and each-way bets. The truth … is a hard sell. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness, #2)

16 " Surprise makes brave men cowards, strong men weak, wise men fools. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness, #2)

17 " Along with the constant pain was the constant need to pretend you weren’t in pain at all, as though the worst thing about your agony was that it might put other people out. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness, #2)

18 " Your Majesty, we are not here to set right all the world’s wrongs.” Orso stared back at him. “What are we here for, then?” Bayaz neither smiled nor frowned. “To ensure that we benefit from them. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness, #2)

19 " He'd grown himself a little bit of a beard, just under his mouth, while he shaved the rest. Clover couldn't understand it. Grow it or don't, but why leave bits? It was like leaving your wife half-fucked. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness, #2)

20 " I won’t. But … pamphlets?’ ‘Absolutely.’ ‘Etchings?’ ‘The language of the heart.’ ‘Do you really think people are that stupid?’ ‘Darling.’ She leaned closer, and kissed him gently, and touched him lightly on the tip of his nose with her fingertip. ‘People are far more stupid than that. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness, #2)