Quotes from Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes

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

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You're a hero.

...Chief without soldiers is just a very lonely man in a big bloody field

Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from behind, and snatches us away while we shit.

Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit.