Best Served Cold

by Joe Abercrombie

You can weep over your misfortunes, or you can pick yourself up and make the best of things, shit though they may be.

“You ever watched someone have their eye burned out of their head and thought you’d be next?” Langrier worked her mouth. “Can’t say I’ve sat on that side of the issue.” “You should try it, see how fucking hard you end up.”

he was in hell. And he liked it.

Man’s got to be what he is, I reckon. Otherwise what is he? Just pretending, no? And who wants to spend all the time they’re given pretending to be what they ain’t?”

You make yourself too hard, you make yourself brittle too. Crack once, crack all to pieces.

a man can forgive all manner of faults in beautiful women that in ugly men he finds entirely beyond sufferance.

Strange, that however tough one’s skin becomes in later life, the wounds of youth never close.