Corine

“In my youth I dreamed one man could tip the balance of history,” said Jakob. “Time has taught me that when one does, it can tip the wrong way as easily as the right.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Devils

“The distinction between Black Art and White is a patent artifice, born of wilful ignorance. They are drawn from one well. They even emerge in the same bucket! Then you blockheads dip in two cups and declare what suits your petty prejudices White and what defies your pitiful understanding Black when in fact they are one and the same—”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Devils

“If he’d learned one thing during his many years on earth, it was that words are rarely better than silence.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Devils

“quoted a passage from a poem by Heaney: History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up And hope and history rhyme.”
― Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland