A Practical Guide to Conquering the World (The Siege, #3)

by K.J. Parker

Death is prepared to wait. It’s always there for you, like your mother.

when falling off a high tower, try to fly. You never know your luck and what’ve you got to lose?

The whole point of war,” I told him, “is to get what you want. It’s not about killing the maximum number of people. That’s a bad way of going about it. That just shows you’re incompetent, or lazy.