The Trouble With Peace (The Age of Madness, #2)

by Joe Abercrombie

‘In times of peace, the warlike man attacks himself.’ Friedrich Nietzsche

‘The higher you climb, the further you have to fall, and the greater the spectacle when you hit the ground.

Trouble with the good fight, I find … once the fight starts, the good stops.’

Rare anger can be inspiring. Frequent anger becomes contemptible.’

‘The chronic is, in the end, far harder to stand than the acute.’

‘Surprise makes brave men cowards, strong men weak, wise men fools.’

must confess I have always had some sympathy with villains. Heroism makes fine entertainment but sooner or later someone has to get things done.’

A man is measured by his enemies. Worthy ones can be more missed than friends.’

life is the misery we endure between disappointments.

‘Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.’ Benjamin Franklin

And who should be sitting on the bench in her father’s unkempt garden, watching the sunrise sparkle on the sea, but the one who gave it to her?

The time comes when you realise the world is not yours any more. The best you can do is pass it on to your children.’

‘A bank with a reputation for mercy is like a whore with a reputation for chastity – one fears they won’t get the job done.

the pampered daughter of the Master of the Royal Mints, suddenly snatched away to the mines of Angland?

life is the misery we endure between disappointments.

King Orso took any notice of the letter I sent him,

Leo saw now that his father had been wrong. It’s after the battle. That’s when a man finds out who he truly is.