The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)

by Joe Abercrombie

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But some things have to be done. It’s better to do them, than to live with the fear of them.

Different men have different ways, Logen had told him once, and you have to have fear to have courage.

‘Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse’ Joseph Brodsky

It was a fact, he was only now beginning to realise, that the conversation of the drunk is only interesting to the drunk. A few glasses of wine can be the difference between finding a man a hilarious companion or an insufferable moron.

He spared no thought for anything but his task. Once you choose to go, or your chief chooses for you, you go all the way, and never look back ’til the task’s done. The time you spend thinking is the time you’ll get killed in.

‘I stand amazed.’

‘Now you are.’