The Heroes (First Law World, #5)

by Joe Abercrombie

That’s the problem with mistakes. You can make ’em in an instant. Years upon years spent tiptoeing about like a fool, then you take your eye away for a moment and … Bang.

‘Patience is as fearsome a weapon as rage. More so, in fact, ’cause fewer men have it.’

Some men are made for doing violence. Some are meant for planning it. Then there are a special few whose talent is for taking the credit.

‘Name or not, you’ll just be the same man. No better. Maybe worse.’

Luck. Some men have it. Some don’t.

‘My husband goes away for a week and all he brings me is the North and everything in it?’

loyalty’s a dangerous foundation. Tends to wash away in a storm. Self-interest stands in any weather.’

If it was someone come to kill him it didn’t seem likely they’d have given him a warning by calling his name. Not unless they were idiots. Idiots can be just as vengeful as anyone else, though, if not more so.