Best Served Cold

by Joe Abercrombie

It’s always the poor who are crushed under rich men’s ambitions. And yet they rarely complain, because… well…” “They dream of having towers o’ their own?” Cosca chuckled. “Why, yes, I suppose they do. They don’t see that the higher you climb, the further you have to fall.” “Men rarely see that ’til the ground’s rushing at ’em.”