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How old are you? Nineteen?’ ‘Twenty-one.’ Though she sometimes felt a hundred. ‘I’m blessed with a youthful glow.’ ‘Still far too young to retire.’ ‘I’m about the right age,’ said Shev. ‘Still alive.’
Cleverness, caution and plans will only get a thief so far. Then luck’s a treacherous bitch and won’t always play along, so boldness will have to take you the rest of the way.
In bloody days, swords were worth more than gods.
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.
When there is no law, there is no crime.
A man in the desert must take such water as he is offered, after all.
‘But it is easy to speak of the past, impossible to go there.
‘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.’
‘It’s a fine line between too much drama and too little, isn’t it, though?’
But the sad fact was, only the winners got to regret what they did in a fight,
But it was easier to lie than to have the hard conversation. Much easier.
A problem left behind was just the same as a problem solved.
