The Heroes (First Law World #5)

by Joe Abercrombie

“You have to be realistic about these things.”

Savour the little moments, son, that’s my advice. They’re what life is. All the things that happen while you’re waiting for something else.

I was proud to take you when you had the world at your feet. What kind of a man would I be if I turned my back now you’ve got the world on your shoulders? No. You’re family.”

War’s ninety-nine parts boredom and, now and then, one part arse-opening terror.

It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.

“Sometimes the right thing to do is run like fuck.

you assume it won’t happen to you. You assume you’re more important than that.

I love you. I love you, and that is why I must smash your head apart. He was laughing as he pounded his gauntleted knuckles into the man’s bloody-blond moustache again. Laughing and crying at once.