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February 2 - February 15, 2025
Trouble with the good fight, I find… once the fight starts, the good stops.”
She wondered if it helped, to believe in God. Whether it was reassuring or terrifying, to look at all this shit and know for sure it was part of some grand plan.
Rare anger can be inspiring. Frequent anger becomes contemptible.”
“We’re all like children, Rikke. The older you get, the more you realise the grown-ups won’t suddenly walk in and set things right. You want things right, you have to put ’em right yourself.”
“You rest now, Da.” The sun was coming out, at least, and she looked to the sea, and watched it glitter. “I’ll take care of things from here.”
He swung overhand and Oxel stumbled out of the way. He barely even thrust, really, it was more that Red Hat slipped, and as luck would have it, he fell right onto Oxel’s sword. Luck can be quite the dodgy bitch, after all.
Most of her knew they’d never been well matched. But there was a piece of her that’d loved him once. And that piece ached at the loss of him, and the woman she’d been with him, and the life she might’ve had with him,
When people are fixed on hatred they do not discriminate.
“Winning teaches you nothing,” said Tunny. “You see what a man really is when he loses.”
What’s the point in having new generations if all we do is pick up the feuds of the old one?
And as simply as that, it was done. No ceremony, no medals, no grand speech and no cheering crowds. From the pinnacle of power to a toothless old cripple in one brief conversation. The chair squeaked from the room and the doors were shut upon Sand dan Glokta. The era of Old Sticks was at an end.
“All that work,” said Orso. “All that effort. All that ingenuity, and courage, and struggle, to make what? Corpses.” “Few things indeed,” mused Pike, “seem to have so much appeal before, and so little after, as a battle.”
But being right is of little value in war.
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.
