Joe Abercrombie

The Blade Itself

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  • .has quoted2 years ago
    The Magi searched high and low for the Seed, but could not find it.'
  • .has quoted2 years ago
    Ah, what a hard life it's been. Thug and torturer is a real step up for you, isn't it? Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be.
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    I've fought in three campaigns,' he began. 'In seven pitched battles. In countless raids

    and skirmishes and desperate defences, and bloody actions of every kind. I've fought in the driving snow, the blasting wind, the middle of the night. I've been fighting all my life, one enemy or another, one friend or another. I've known little else. I've seen men killed for a word, for a look, for nothing at all. A woman tried to stab me once for killing her husband, and I threw her down a well. And that's far from the worst of it. Life used to be cheap as dirt to me. Cheaper.

    'I've fought ten single combats and I won them all, but I fought on the wrong side and for all the wrong reasons. I've been ruthless, and brutal, and a coward. I've stabbed men in the back, burned them, drowned them, crushed them with rocks, killed them asleep, unarmed, or running away. I've run away myself more than once. I've pissed myself with fear. I've begged for my life. I've been wounded, often, and badly, and screamed and cried like a baby whose mother took her tit away. I've no doubt the world would be a better place if I'd been killed years ago, but I haven't been, and I don't know why.'

    He looked down at his hands, pink and clean on the stone. 'There are few men with more blood on their hands than me. None, that I know of. The Bloody-Nine they call me, my enemies, and there's a lot of 'em. Always more enemies, and fewer friends. Blood gets you nothing but more blood. It follows me now, always, like my shadow, and like my shadow I can never be free of it. I should never be free of it. I've earned it. I've deserved it. I've sought it out. Such is my punishment.'
  • .has quoted2 years ago
    You arrogant old dolt, how dare you? You built your reputation on my successes, then when I needed your help you cut me off. And now you come to me, and seek my help, and call me friend?
  • .has quoted2 years ago
    Am I screaming

    or laughing? How do I tell the difference?
  • .has quoted2 years ago
    Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than to live with the fear of it.
  • Elena Tarasenkohas quoted3 years ago
    “Shit,” said Logen. He threw himself to one side, slipped and fell on his face, rolled away thrashing through the brush, expecting the spear through his back at any moment.
  • Dmitriy Knyazevhas quoted4 years ago
    sleeping badly, his body was twisted round
  • Dmitriy Knyazevhas quoted4 years ago
    filled to capacity with colourful revellers
  • Dmitriy Knyazevhas quoted4 years ago
    her be too ugly. And not too stupid either. Anything but an afternoon
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