Mercy and cowardice are the same, " she snapped out. "But you want their land, not their lives, no? Dead men can't obey.

Joe Abercrombie
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  1. If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?

  2. The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.

  3. Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.

  4. Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

  5. It was a look that gave her a tingle, all right, but not in a good way. In that look she saw her silly bloody hopes as twisted and broken as she’d left that Lowlander’s arm, and it was no one’s fault but her own....

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