Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)

by Joe Abercrombie

better to do it, than to live with the fear of it.

West noticed that his chest was not moving.

The shark has been jumped

If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?

Braver still, maybe, to stay and face the man you are.

you can’t truly hate a man without loving him first,

There’s nothing worth less than what men think of you after you’re back in the mud.

I think this should be on my headstone, with proper attribution, of course.

good men will only go so far along dark paths.”

Would I rather be good than right?

life is the misery we endure between disappointments.

Everything beautiful has a dark side, and some of us must dwell there, so that others can laugh in the light.

We all have our responsibilities. We all owe something to someone. Only the entirely worthless are entirely free. The worthless and the dead.”

It hit him in the side like a charging bull, punched the air out of his lungs, knocked the sense out of his head, sucked him in and down into the cold darkness…

From chapter one, “The End,” of Joe Abercrombie’s novel, “The Blade Itself,”: “It hit him in the side like a charging bull, punched the air out of his lungs, knocked the sense out of his head, sucked him in and down into the cold darkness…” I distinctly heard the A-Team theme in my head as I read this very similar passage from the last chapter of “The Last Argument of Kings.” C’mon Joe…