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I’m not rich—” “I have never met anyone who would admit being rich,” he agreed. “Or to getting enough sleep.”
Men do not look on horror and forget it. They merely put it away.
no commander is ever much better than his last performance.
Never make a plan more complicated than your ability to communicate it.
We are never wise—when we are rich, we squander our riches fighting each other and building churches. When we are poor, we fight among ourselves for scraps—and always, the Wild is there to take the unploughed fields.”
“You sound like a man of God,” Gawin said. “Fuck God,” the captain said. “Gabriel!” “Seriously, Gawin, what has God ever done for me?” the captain laughed. “If I awaken after a sword thrust with the eternal flames burning my sorry arse, I’ll spit in the maker’s face, because that’s all I was ever offered in a rigged game, and I will have played it anyway.”
Hope gave rise only to more fear. But fear was the ocean in which he swam, and he reached through the fear—he used the fear.
