Pattys

“What is the world coming to when an honest man cannot burn corpses without suspicion?" asked Nothing.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King

“Nothing has to be true forever. Just for long enough.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Truth: Stage Adaptation

“Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“She died because we are satisfied with mediocrity and consider needless deaths and suffering as necessities for our way of life,’ Sol replied coldly. ‘Do we mourn that our ineptitude claims a soul? No, we attribute the loss to actions of forces beyond our ken. We venerate the miraculous survival of a child instead of asking why our society is built on pointless deaths.”
― Denny Flowers, Fire Made Flesh