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“All the best secrets are told at night.”
“No man should go to Valhalla with brothel rash.”
“Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.”
“Its always better to sit on your dignity in private than to stand on it in public.”
“You would think it best to save your breath for running, but I often find screaming helps.”
“Ive never seen a man who understands so little about women and yet is so led about by them.”
“A warrior fears the battle he missed. More than any fight he can make his own, he fears the fight thats gone, that ended without him, that no feat of arms can change.”
“Cold has its own taste. It tastes of a bitten tongue. It coils around you, a living thing, a beast that means to kill you, not with wrath, not with tooth nor claw, but with the mercy of surrender, ...”
“Death was kind. He drew a sharp breath. But no father should have to give such a kindness to his child.”
“And thats how it is in this world, boy. Start a tale, just a little tale that should fade and dietake your eye off it for just a moment and when you turn back its grown big enough to grab you up in...”
“When you become a father, it changes you." Snorri spoke towards the fires glow. "You see the world in new ways. Those who are not changed were not properly men to begin with.”
“Out here you need to live in the moments. Watch the world. You're a young man, Jal, a child who's refused to grow up. Do it now, or you'll die a young man.”
“Men whove made choices always feel they own their destiny. Few ever think to ask who shaped and offered up those choices. Who dangles the carrot they think theyve chosen to follow.”
“I'm a good liar. A great one. And to be a great liar you have to live your lies, to believe them, to the point that when you tell them to yourself enough times, even what's right before your eyes w...”
“Genuine surprise is a great help when faced with an unwelcome duty. Of course, when its the paying of debts youre forgetting, that can lead to broken fingers. And worse. I guess its a form of lying...”
“Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.”
“To err is human, to forgive is divine... but Im only a cardinal and cardinals are human, so rather than forgiving you Im going to err towards beating you with this stick.”
“We all practice self-deception to a degree; no man can handle complete honesty without being cut at each turn. There's not enough room in a man's head for sanity alongside each grief, each worry, e...”
“Its often said that cowards make the best torturers. Cowards have good imaginations, imaginations that torment them with all the worst stuff of nightmare, all the horrors that could befall them. Th...”
“Sometimes our worst fears aren't realized - though in my experience it's only to make room for the fears our imagination was insufficient to house.”
“There are no other choices for you, Prince Jalan, and when there are no choices all men are equally brave.”
“Im a liar and a cheat and a coward, but I will never, ever, let a friend down. Unless of course not letting them down requires honesty, fair play, or bravery.”
“Part of the art of survival as a coward is not letting things get to the point where that cowardice is exposed.”
