“Look around you - this [land] is cold, inhospitable. Only the strong survive. Here there are no green fields, no verdant pastures. A warrior is old by the time he is thirty. We have no energy to spend on pretty words.”
— David Gemmell, book Quest for Lost Heroes
Source: Drenai series, Quest for Lost Heroes, Ch. 12
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