Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes Quotes

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit.

Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.

The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.

Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from behind, and snatches us away while we shit.

So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You're a hero.

Remember, though, that you are the king's observer, not the king's champion.

...Chief without soldiers is just a very lonely man in a big bloody field