That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in the past. Starting again. Damning yesterday and facing tomorrow with your head held high. Times change. It's those that see it coming, and plan for it, and change themselves to suit that prosper.
Joe AbercrombieAnyone can face ease and success with confidence. It is the way we face trouble and misfortune that defines us.
Joe AbercrombieSummers past love company, seems every time you turn around there's more o' the bastards at your back.
Joe AbercrombieWater dripping from his slapping fruits
Joe AbercrombieAn Army is an instrument of government. It must be used in such a way that it furthers the interests of government. Otherwise what use is it? Only an extremely costly machine for......minting medals.
Joe AbercrombieTags: humour
Say one thing for Logen Ninefingers, say he's a lover.
Joe AbercrombieHonest men are so very rare, they are often mistaken for criminals, for rebels, for madmen. What were your crimes, anyway, but to be different?'
'Robbery the first time, and I served seven years. When they caught me again there were eighty-four counts, with fourteen murders.'
Cosca cocked an eyebrow. 'But we're you truly guilty?'
'Yes'
He frowned for a moment then waved it away. 'Nobody's perfect. Lets leave the past behind us.
Tags: best-served-cold
Wish you were with him?'
Volfier frowned sideways. 'I wish we'd won at Ospria, then the choice wouldn't have come up. But then I wish my wife hadn't fucked the baker while I was away in the Union on campaign three years ago. Wishing don't change nothing.'
Shivers grinned, and tapped at his metal eye with a fingernail. 'That there is a fact.
Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.
Joe AbercrombieThings aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact. The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into the grave.
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