Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)

by Joe Abercrombie

“Suffering is what gives a man strength, my boy, just as the steel most hammered turns out the hardest.”

“Honour, eh? What the hell is that anyway? Every man thinks it’s something different. You can’t drink it. You can’t fuck it. The more of it you have the less good it does you, and if you’ve got none at all, you don’t miss it.”