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81 " Strange, isn’t it? You keep having to check how disgusting it is. Then, one day, you check and you find you actually like it. Soon after, no other drink will quite scratch that itch. I’ve often felt that people are the same. "
― Joe Abercrombie , The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness, #2)
82 " It’s easy to scream about the fence when you’re on the wrong side of it. Some mad twist of fortune lands you on the right side, though, the fence starts to look like it might not be such a bad idea. Might even be worth all the sacrifices. Other people’s sacrifices aren’t that hard to make. "
83 " The dead save me from the fucking young.’ ‘No getting away from ’em, sadly,’ muttered Clover. ‘The older you get, the more of ’em there are. "
84 " Help to these people was a coin tossed in a pool. It might make a few ripples, but they would quickly vanish as though they had never been. "
85 " Sooner or later, you have to stop expecting folk to bend around your plans and fit your plans to the folk you’ve got. "
86 " above him, the crossed hammers and the lion, holed and torn from victories in the North but never taken by an enemy. He smiled up as the sea wind made it flap and "
87 " What use are straight answers in a crooked world? "
88 " Have a smile at breakfast,” droned Shivers, stony-faced, “you’ll be shitting joy by lunch. "
89 " It can be pleasant to have someone weak leaning on you. It can make you feel strong. But there comes a point when they become a dead weight to carry. "
90 " ...beware most of clever men who look like fools "
91 " Smile, I said. You’re not trying to sell him your teeth. "
92 " In times of peace,the warlike man attacks himself.’ Friedrich Nietzsche "
93 " A king was just a kind of bin for all the blame to go in. "
94 " But a man shows his quality when circumstances are against him, "
95 " In hard times, it’s easy to become hard. But here was a man who always looked for the best in folk. Didn’t always find it, but never gave up looking. Wasted no time polishing his own name. Singing his own songs. Didn’t have to. "
96 " She wished she had better words. Ones that somehow bound up all he’d been to her. All the things felt but never said. All the holes he’d leave behind. But how can you fit all that in a bit of breath? ‘By "
97 " I don’t intend to rush at the grave, believe me.” “Few do. The grave swallows us all regardless. "
98 " Command was a trick. You had to spread the illusion that you knew what you were doing as deep and as wide through your men as you could. Spread the illusion and hope for the best. "
99 " But being an arsehole is crime and punishment both. "
100 " I would ask you to look into your heart.” “Oh, mine’s a very small one. People who seek for anything of much significance in there are inevitably disappointed. "