Haim

“But then Jezal was beginning to doubt that anyone in a position of high authority ever really knew what they were doing. The best one could hope for was to maintain some shred of an illusion that one might. And occasionally, perhaps, try to give the mindless flood of events the slightest push in one direction or another, hoping desperately that it would turn out to be the right one.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“But maybe that’s what happens once the fighting stops, to a man who knows nothing but fighting. He fights himself.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“The land would be cold and dark if you were gone. Seeing him now, Will felt lost forever to the knowledge that James was all he had wanted in his past life, and could never possess in this one.”
― C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir

“Convey me to the high priest, that I might cleanse my crimes in banking notes.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings