Joe Abercrombie

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

“Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.”

“He is dead and I, the self serving coward that I am, still live. Life is not fair. There is no pattern. People die at random. Something everyone knows, but no one truly believes. They think that when it comes to them there will be a lesson, a meaning, a story worth telling. That death will come to them as a dread scholar, a fell knight, a terrible emperor.”

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