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

by Joe Abercrombie

‘If I wished to attend to every detail myself I would have no need of your worthless services! Get out there and get it done, you twisted slime!’

‘If I wished to attend to every detail myself I would have no need of your services. Get out there and get it done!’

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?

‘The only difference between war and murder is the number of the dead.’

and Marovia? Hah! Marovia wanted to piss power away to the people. Votes? Elections? The voice of the common man?’

Do you know what’s worse than a villain? A villain who thinks he’s a hero. A man like that, there’s nothing he won’t do, and he’ll always find himself an excuse.