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

by Joe Abercrombie

But then it’s difficult, isn’t it, to make a passionate argument for what you already have? So boring.

You’ll never hold up someone who can’t swim for themselves. In the end, they’ll drag you down with them.

A man is measured by his enemies.

A battle’s no place for a self-respecting warrior. But if you must attend one, at least have the good taste to be where the fighting isn’t.”

But a man lost in the desert, as the Gurkish say, must take such water as he is offered.

The Great Wolf was brave, no doubt. But bravery and folly never had too big a gulf between ’em.