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The Court of Broken Knives
Anna Smith Spark
Top 10 Best Quotes
“A wise man who's ignored is about as effective as an idiot who's listened to.”
“The war drums pound out a beat like that of the human heart. The terrible, awful sound of living, that one first learns to love and tremble at when floating in the womb.”
“He bared his teeth, his voice an angry hiss. "I do what the hell I like." The dramatic effect was spoiled slightly when he slumped sideways and was violently sick all over his lovely new coat.”
“You want a profound and total lack of people violently dying on you, try dairy farming instead.”
“Soldiers do not believe in gods until they do something to offend them.”
“Your family swims in gold. You've got a face so pretty, you're considerably better looking than most women I've met. You're clever, and can just about use a sword. You killed a bloody dragon, for gods sake. And yet last night I had to drag you unconscious and covered in vomit out of the most depressing hole I've ever had the misfortune to set foot in, after near drowning yourself in something that burned holes in the table-top. You're serving as a foot soldier in a rough mercenary troop a month's wages away from being brigands, on what's probably a suicide mission. You're about to be whipped for misconduct after stealing Company money. From the smell of you, at some point last night you pissed yourself. As far as I can see, you've fucked your life up more thoroughly and absolutely than anyone I've ever met.”
“Why we march and why we die, And what life means...it's all a lie. Death! Death! Death!”
“They danced for hours, not the descendant of Amrath and the High Priestess of Great Tanis but only a man and a woman enjoying themselves, swirling and stamping and jumping to the music’s roar.”
“The world is a good place. Even with pain in it. Even with death.”
“The center and symbol of an empire of dreaming, where men live in the dry desert and count their meaning only in gold. An absurdity. Of course an absurdity. An Emperor who rules forever, in a palace built on sand. A thing sacred to eternity, dead and rotted, encrusted with dust. A hive of insects crawling to achieve divinity, the sublime pointlessness of absolute rule. No one cares. No one wonders. Time ceases. Dust settles.”
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