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

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

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  18. So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You’re a hero. – Joe Abercrombie
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  21. Armour… is part of a state of mind… in which you admit the possibility… of being hit. – Joe Abercrombie
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  37. The Bloody-Nine opened his mouth, and shrieked out all of his bottomless love and his endless hate in one long wail. – Joe Abercrombie
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