Roland

“To be brave among friends was nothing. To have the world against you and pick your path regardless–there is courage.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Red Country

“Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death—ought to decide, indeed, to earn one’s death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“A great leader must share the hardships of his followers, of his soldiers, of his subjects. That is how he wins their respect. Great leaders do not complain. Not ever.”
― Joe Abercrombie

“Patience is as fearsome a weapon as rage. More so, in fact, ’cause fewer men have it.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes