A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.
Joe AbercrombieFear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a foot into empty air. The instinct of self-preservation. It can destroy a man's efficiency.
Joe AbercrombieStrange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.
Joe Abercrombie