Joe Abercrombie - Best Served Cold (2009)

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Good steel bends, but never breaks. Good steel stays always sharp and ready. Good steel feels no pain, no pity, and above all, no remorse

Joe Abercrombie
You should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.

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That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in the past. Starting again. Damning yesterday and facing tomorrow with your head held high. Times change. It's those that see it coming, and plan for it, and change themselves to suit, that prosper.

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I've made peace with myself.
Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win.
Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting.

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All your life spent getting ready for the next thing. I climbed a lot of hills now. I crossed a lot of rivers. Crossed the sea even, left everything I knew and came to Styria. But there I was, waiting for me at the docks when I got off the boat, same man, same life. Next valley ain't no different from this one. No better anyway. Reckon I've learned... just to stick in the place I'm at. Just to be the man I am.

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Sometimes men change for the better. Sometimes men change for the worse. And often, very often, given time and opportunity...' He waved his flask around for a moment, then shrugged. 'They change back.

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Things aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact. The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into the grave.

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Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.

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Love is a fine cushion to rest upon, but only hate can make you a better person.

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