A Portrait of a Killer

Here's your QotD, from the novel "The Blade Itself" by Joe Abercrombie. I've been slowing making my way through it, but it's a little less action and romance and more strategy and deep thinking than I usually like. Still, it's worth reading.

"There are few men with more blood on their hands than me. None, that I know of. The Bloody-Nine they call me, my enemies, and there's a lot of 'em. Always more enemies, and fewer friends. Blood gets you nothing but more blood. It follows me now, always, like my shadow, and like my shadow I can never be free of it. I should never be free of it. I've earned it. I've deserved it. I've sought it out. Such is my punishment." - Logan Nine-Fingers