Book: The last argument of kings

There's always a knife, which you do not expect, and it is sharper than all.

Those who dies on the field of battle, in a sense, lucky. Forever young. Forever illustrious.

The son of a king? I'm disappointed. After all we've been through together, you readily believe the lies that I spread? This stuff was intended for the idiots on the streets, but the idiots in palaces, it turns out, just as easily swallow the sweet stuff. I bought you a whore. You cost me six marks. She asked for twenty, but I traded.

All of course. It is clear that I will never be better, but I'll try not to become worse. At least I will try.

- I apologize if I tired You!
- I accept Your apology.
- I was joking.
Oh, Your mind is so sharp I almost cut myself.
- You laugh at me!
- It's easy.

It seemed to him that he loves Ardi with unbearable passion. Between them was something he will never find. How could he not understand it then? As enabled him to crush all this, and for what? The sad fact was, as he thought that love itself was not enough.

He knew they had something good, even if they spoke to each other only cruel words. Some people have simply no gentle words, no matter how they tried.

You aged, Bias. Somehow cringed.
- Yes, everything seems smaller when it is high above you.

- And then what?
Back to the North. - Logen shrugged his shoulders. World.
- The world? - mistrustfully grinned Snoop. - What is it? What are we going to do?
I think... well... going to grow something, for example.
- To grow? In the name of all fucking dead! What you or I or any of us understands the business? What we do in life but to kill?
Logen awkwardly shrugged.
- It is necessary to hope for the best. Man is able to learn.
- To learn? The more you kill, the better you do it. The better you do, the less you adapted to anything else. It seems to me, we lived so long only because he had learned to kill better than anyone.

How much pain we experienced, we never get used to it. Always try to avoid it.

If you want to change and be a different, new person, you have to stay in new places, to do something new with new people who don't know what you were before. If you're back on the old road, who else can you be but the same, old man?

- Know who is the worst villain? A villain who thinks he's a hero. Such a person finds justification for any of his act.

Extra knives is not the case, said his father. If only these knives are not aimed in your heart to those who hate you.

Too dark even for me. There is nothing better than the society of those who are suffering even more than you. However, as soon as you part with their suffering, your own you feel the pressure doubly, cold and unforgiving.