The First Law Trilogy Boxed Set: The Blade Itself, Before They Are Hanged, Last Argument of Kings

by Joe Abercrombie

‘That’s what war is, in my experience. A great deal of waiting, in unpleasant conditions. A great deal of waiting, with occasional moments of the most extreme terror.’

But you can’t truly hate a man without loving him first, and there’s always a trace of that love left over.

Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.