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21 " You are a king. You have no business talking about the right thing. "
― Joe Abercrombie , The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness, #2)
22 " So this is all about appeareances?` murmured Vick. 'Being king IS all about appeareances,' said Orso. 'An endless perfomance with no chance for an encore and for damn sure no applause. "
23 " You can’t change the fact the world’s full of arseholes. You can only change how you deal with them. "
24 " A man is measured by his enemies. Worthy ones can be more missed than friends. "
25 " Years, back, when they first made him a sergeant, he’d imagined the officers much have all the answers. When he was given his commission, he’d imagined the generals must have all the answers. When King Orso made him a general, he’d imagined the Closed counsel bust have all the answers. Now, as a lord marshal, he finally knew it for an absolute fact. No one had the answers. Worse. There weren’t any. "
26 " Principles are like clothes,’ said Vick, straightening her jacket. ‘You have to change them to suit the audience. "
27 " have often said that life is the misery we endure between disappointments. "
28 " But easy is for the dead, "
29 " Few things indeed,’ mused Pike, ‘seem to have so much appeal before, and so little after, as a battle. "
30 " A bank with a reputation for mercy is like a whore with a reputation for chastity – one fears they won’t get the job done. "
31 " A battle is no place for a self-respecting warrior, but if you must attend one at least have the good taste to be where the fighting isn't. "
32 " He was one of those men loves to be despised. That treats loathing like gold, to be clawed for and hoarded up. He hadn’t learned yet that hate’s the one thing never runs out. "
33 " There’s nothing unpatriotic about the truth,” muttered Leo, wondering whether there might be. "
34 " You’re a fine one to talk, Skinny Rikke. Every pinch o’ meat fell off you when you went to see the witch. You’re like a head stuck on a spear these days, but without the flies. Most o’ the flies, at least.” And she burst out laughing. "
35 " But there’s so much to feel sorry for in the world. Can’t waste too much on folk who act like pricks. "
36 " The ones you like straight away rarely turn out to be your favourites. "
37 " Help with strange problems comes from strange people. "
38 " Nothing is ever fixed. From the moment it is born, from the moment it is built, everything is always dying, decaying, drifting into chaos. "
39 " Prefer to eat the eggs I’ve got, my king, rather’n the ones still up in the tree. "
40 " And loyalty? A trick those with power played on those without to make them act against their own interests. "