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Once you’ve got a task to do, it’s better to do it than to live with the fear of it.
You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you’ve nothing else.
Hard words are for fools and cowards. Calder might have been both, but Logen was neither. If you mean to kill, you’re better getting right to it than talking about it. Talk only makes the other man ready, and that’s the last thing you want.
The more you learn, the more you realise how little you know. Still, the struggle itself is worthwhile. Knowledge is the root of power, after all.’
But that was civilisation, so far as Logen could tell. People with nothing better to do, dreaming up ways to make easy things difficult.
A few glasses of wine can be the difference between finding a man a hilarious companion or an insufferable moron.
A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time, and had never got anywhere.
