Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men's heads.

He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything.

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.

Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.

Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes.

There is some delight in ale and wine And some in girls with ankles fine But my delight, yes always mine Is to dance with Jak O’ the Shadows We will toss the dice however they fall And snuggle the girls be they short or tall Then follow Lord Mat whenever he calls To dance with Jak O’ the Shadows.