"I apologise, your Highness. Murder can be a painful business."

Identity, Apology, Darkness, Irony, Power

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"I apologise, your Highness. Murder can be a painful business."

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"She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was two."

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"But there's something missing in them, even the nice ones. It's like they're permanently absent-minded, like that can't quite remember who they are."

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"We go to Europe to be Americanized."

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"Who you are in Christ is far more important and meaningful than whatever has taken place in your past."

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"Chief without soldiers is just a very lonely man in a big bloody field."

Leadership

"Those with the least always lose the most in war."

Choice

"One day you're something, so promising and full o' dares, so big the world's too small a place to hold you. Then, 'fore you know it, you're old, and you realise all them things you had in mind you'll never get to. All them doors you felt too big to fit through have already shut. Only one left open and it leads to nothing but nothing."

Perspective

"Remember, though, that you are the king's observer, not the king's champion."

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"When you're in hell, only a devil can point the way out."

Darkness

"Few indeed are those who get a choice. We do as we are told. We stand or fall beside those who were born near to us, who look as we do, who speak the same words, and all the while we know as little of the reasons why as does the dust we return to."

Fate

"Bang! The end of his little finger, now, and three more pieces of the rest. His middle finger was down to the knuckle, almost. Severard stared, his eyes with with horror, his breath coming short, fast gasps. Shock, amazement, stunned terror. Glokta leaned down to his ear. 'I hope you weren't planning to take up the violin, Severard. You'll be lucky if you can play a fucking gong by the time we're done here."

Learning

"You look especially beautiful this morning, Monza.'That brought a smile to the corner of her mouth. The corner he couldn't see. 'Well. Facts are facts."

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"You can always make enemies of your friends,' said Sumael. 'Making friends of your enemies is harder labor."

Reconciliation

"Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes."

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