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xserpx · 9 months ago

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‘I pretend to care for the men, but in truth I don’t give a damn whether they live or die. You always did care, but you pretend not to give a damn. I never saw you waste one man’s life. And yet they like me better. Hah. There’s justice.’

— Nicomo Cosca to Monza Murcatto, Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie

Forever yelling from the rooftops that Monza is a sympathetic character who 100% deserves her happy ending; a victim of abuse who walks through the hell that is gaining self-understanding and agency over her own life, coming to terms with just how futile is her struggle to be respected in a world that refuses to care. This quote reminds me a lot of that speech in the Barbie movie, the way Monza is constantly trying to play so many roles, tying herself in knots, never strong enough, never nice enough, never ruthless enough, and at the end of the day, after all that effort, it turns out that in the eyes of the men who ruined her life she was only ever supposed to be collateral damage. God, I love her.

#best served cold #monza murcatto #joe abercrombie #the first law #monza did nothing wrong #i feel like i've posted this quote before but tumblr search is bad and it's not coming up on my blog #but anyway #this quote makes me feral #especially because cosca is the one saying it #cosca who every fan loves purely for his sense of humour #who abercrombie goes on to single out as someone TRULY heinous for his sheer nigh sadistic apathy #the standalones continue to be the best trilogy #i love you age of madness i am kissing leo on the forehead so hard but UGH #having a the standalones are great moment #also do you ever think about the chapter title 'benna murcatto saves a life'?#when you reread the book and realise exactly how it is that benna's death 'saves' her #ugh abercrombie is so fucked up for that ❤️

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