The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)

by Joe Abercrombie

Jezal had often observed that the ever so slightly stupid will act more stupidly in clever company.

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.