18 Quotes by Joe Abercrombie about war

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    First, always do your best to look the coward, the weakling, the fool, Silence is a warrior's best armour, the saying goes. Hard looks and hard words have never won a battle yet, but they've lost a few.

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    You must be quicker to strike and quicker when you do. You must be tougher and cleverer, you must always look to attack, and you must fight without honour, without conscience, without pity.

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    If killing folk ever starts to right, you’ve a worse kind of problem. Guilt can sting, but you should be thankful for it.’‘Thankful?’‘Guilt is a luxury reserved for those still breathing and with no unbearable pain, cold or hunger demanding all their fickle attention. Long as guilt’s your big problem, girl...things can’t be that bad.

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    You seem happy enough," came Monza's voice, "for a man about to risk his life." Shiver's opened his eyes and turned his grin on her. "I've made peace with myself.""Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win.""Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting.""I'm starting to think that's the only victory worth a shit," she muttered, almost to herself.

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    The man is a monster. The worst I have ever seen, in fact, since I last looked in the mirror. The truth? I am rotting too. I am buried alive, and already rotting. If I was not such a coward I would kill myself, but I am, and so I must content myself with killing others in the hope that one day, if I can only wade deep enough in blood, I will come out clean.

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    What’s the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same uniform as you? A crime. A murder. Worse than despicable. Are we not all men? All blood and bone and dreams?

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