Damn it, when will you learn that refusing to admit you’ve lost isn’t the same as winning? - Scott Lynch

Only gods-damned fools die for lines drawn on maps.

You need money that badly?
As a tool, certainly. Its application is simple and universally effective.

Is this man, ah, senile?
He's absolutely competent, she answered coldly.
I assure you I am, roared Cordo. Anger changed his countenance utterly. And I will not be put off from business by assassins in my own bedroom! Now, you will either kill me immediately or negotiate the price of my release!