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61 " Jesu, Rike, you been gargling rat piss again? "
― Mark Lawrence , Prince of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #1)
62 " War, my friends, is a thing of beauty. Those as says otherwise are losing. "
63 " It's what I am, and if you want excuses, come and take them. "
64 " Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend. Let him think both bishops holy. Let him remember happy days in the shadows of his castles. Let him love his queen. Watch him lose them all. "
65 " The perfumes of lords and ladies tickled at my nose: lavender and orange oil. On the road, shit has the decency to stink. "
66 " Four years and everything was the same, except me. "
67 " I held my arms wide to the rain. I could feel it beat on me. I didn’t have so many years under my belt, but even to me the rain fell like memory. It woke wild nights in me when I stood on the Keep Tower, on the edge above a high fall, near drowned in the deluge and daring the lightning to touch me. "
68 " Lundist held that a man who can observe is a man apart. Such a man can see opportunities where others see only the obstacles "
69 " I showed him the empty time where my memory won’t go. I let him look there. He ran from me then. He ran, and I chased him. But only to the edge of the marsh. Because it’s a game. And I’m going to win. "
70 " Blood is on these hands, these ink-stained hands, but I don’t feel the sin. I think maybe we die every day. Maybe we’re born new each dawn, a little changed, a little further on our own road. When enough days stand between you and the person you were, you’re strangers. Maybe that’s what growing up is. Maybe I have grown up. "
71 " A strange thing — nails will hold a building together, but there's nothing better for taking a man apart. "
72 " I took him to be about thirty, but it's hard to tell with fat people: they've no skin spare for wrinkles. "
73 " She met my gaze and the light dazzled, but I wouldn’t look away. “Your choices are keys to doors I cannot see beyond. "
74 " There is no evil, Makin,” I said. “There’s the love of things, power, comfort, sex, and there’s what men are willing to do to satisfy those lusts. "
75 " Brother Gains wasn’t the cook because he was good at cooking. He was just bad at everything else. "
76 " The boy, not 'my son.' I didn't miss that edge. "
77 " Tell me, tutor,” I said. “Is revenge a science, or an art? "
78 " The knife felt like hot iron in my fist. I hated myself for what I was going to do, and just as much for hesitating. I hated myself for the weakness in me. "
79 " I think you need to have lived more to truly know a man's heart. You need to have made more transactions in life to know the worth of the coin you spend so freely. "
80 " Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it. Heroes on the other hand, they make terrible torturers. They don't see what motivates a normal man. They misunderstand everything. They can't think of anything worse than besmirching your honour. A coward on the other hand; he'll tie you to a chair and light a slow fire under you. I'm not a hero or a coward, but I work with what I've got. "