I must admit that you fascinate me, Superior. Your life would seem to be entirely unbearable. And yet you fight so very, very hard to stay alive. With every weapon and stratagem. You simply refuse to die.”
“I am ready to die.” Glokta returned his gaze, like for like. “But I refuse to lose.” ~Bayaz and Glokta
Stichwörter: inspirational-success-failure
It always amazes me, how swiftly problems can be solved, once you start cutting things off people.
Joe AbercrombiePrickomo fucking cocksca. That bastard old arsehole-fucker.
Joe AbercrombieUnsheathe your swords!' He considered that. 'Or cheaper weapons! Let us ... do some good!
Joe AbercrombieStichwörter: weapons swords nicomo-cosca
Evil turned out not to be a grand thing. Not sneering Emperors with their world-conquering designs. Not cackling demons plotting in the darkness beyond the world. It was small men with their small acts and their small reasons. It was selfishness and carelessness and waste. It was bad luck, incompetence, and stupidity. It was violence divorced from conscience or consequence. It was high ideals, even, and low methods.
Joe AbercrombieStichwörter: men evil violence villainy
Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.
Joe AbercrombieStichwörter: life nostalgia good-times
Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.
Joe AbercrombieStichwörter: belief faith cosca
One day you're something, so promising and full o' dares, so big the world's too small a place to hold you. Then, 'fore you know it, you're old, and you realise all them things you had in mind you'll never get to. All them doors you felt too big to fit through have already shut. Only one left open and it leads to nothing but nothing.
Joe AbercrombieLorsen shook his head in amazement. 'You truly are disgusting.'
'I would be the last to disagree, but you fail to see that you are worse. No man capable of greater evil than the one who thinks himself in the right. No purpose more evil than the higher purpose. I freely admit I am a villain. That's why you hired me. But I am no hypocrite.
Stichwörter: evil villainy cosca
Inquisitor Lorsen's thin lip curled. "There is truly nothing in you of what separates man from animal, is there? You are bereft of conscience. An utter absence of morality. You have no principle beyond the selfish."
Cosca's face hardened as he leaned forwards. "Perhaps when you have faced as many disappointments and suffered as many betrayals as I, you will see it - there is no principle beyond the selfish, Inquisitor, and men are animals. Conscience is a burden we choose to bear. Morality is the lie we tell ourselves to make its bearing easier. There have been many times in my life when I have wished it was not so. But it is so.
Stichwörter: morality humanity conscience cosca
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