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Once you’ve got a task to do, it’s better to do it than to live with the fear of it.
You get everything you could possibly want, then throw a tantrum because you have to pick it up yourself! You’re pathetic! You make me fucking sick!”
Glokta smiled. “Excellent. Now tell me. What is your name?”
Glokta is a very interesting character. The skill he possesses in his craft is chilling.
“If a man seeks to change the world, he should first understand it.”
I will say that i do very much appreciate Abercrombie's prose. It is much more classical than Sanderson's, and I'm coming to realize I enjoy the floweriness and rhythm of a classical work.
The great wage secret wars for power and wealth, and they call it government.
Boom. Roasted.
“Fare you well, nobody.”
Do I sense the budding of a love triangle? If so, I am firmly team Logen.
Unfortunately, you couldn’t just piss in a pot in this place. They had a special thing, like a flat wooden shelf with a hole in it, in a little room. He’d peered down into that hole when they first arrived, wondering what it could be for.
That was an interesting mental picture.
But that was civilisation, so far as Logen could tell. People with nothing better to do, dreaming up ways to make easy things difficult.
Why go any further when he had a perfectly good pot right there? He glanced furtively round the room, swinging the jar into position… then froze. He was not alone.
I laughed out loud at this!
He had a feeling, for some reason, that the memory of that smile might have to get him through a lot.
Foreshadowing…
Corpses, then.
