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you want me just for me, my door’s always open and my legs shortly after. If you want me so you can squeeze me out like a lemon and toss my empty skin aside in Talins, well, no offence but I’d rather not.’
Then luck’s a treacherous bitch and won’t always play along, so boldness will have to take you the rest of the way.
‘My friend, I am the weapon.’
There’s no style of contempt like the stuff one kind of savage has for another, Craw guessed.
In hard times, soft thoughts can kill you quicker than the plague.
Times like these reveal a man for what he truly is. For a while Temple had convinced himself he was a righteous man, but it is easy to be virtuous before your virtue is put to the test. Like a camel turd baked in the sun, beneath the pious crust he was the same stinking, self-serving coward he had always been.
‘If you have to tell someone you are furious, and then, furthermore, that you mean it, your fury has failed to achieve its desired effect.’
Shev held up a knife. ‘Tickle me and I will fucking stab you.’
A fight was the last thing she ever wanted, but she’d reluctantly come to find there was no downside to having a good knife ready. It made a fine conversation point, if nothing else.
But the sad fact was, only the winners got to regret what they did in a fight,
‘This is hell.’ Shev put her head in her hands. ‘This is hell.’
Takes a lifetime of hard work to make a man. Only takes a few moments to end one.
It was like old Threetrees always said–a sword’s a shitty thing to give a man. Shitty for him, and shitty for everyone around him.
Surprise is like virginity. You only get the one chance at using it, and that normally turns out a crushing disappointment.
This wasn’t fantasies, it was life. And life had a habit of kicking her in the cunt.
Friendly’s cleaver would speak for him. That was a voice that cut short even the most tedious of arguments.
‘Some men will break a thing just because they can,’ he had whispered. ‘But war must be a leader’s last resort. Fight a war, you’ve lost already.’
‘Rules must be for all, and for those who lead most of all. Without rules, every man stands alone, owning only what he can tear from the world with one hand and grip with the other. Chaos.’
