Joe Abercrombie Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Joe Abercrombie
Joe Abercrombie Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Joe Abercrombie on Wise Famous Quotes.
Ninefingers had been so very fond of saying: it was better to do it, than to live with the fear of it. He
The Bloody-Nine opened his mouth, and shrieked out all of his bottomless love and his endless hate in one long wail.
Well, that's the end of that, I reckon. You know what, Furious?" And he grinned sideways at West. "I'm getting to like you, boy.
The lowly have small ambitions, and are satisfied with small indulgences. They need not get fair treatment. They need only think that they do ...
Maybe there are only so many faces in the world. You get old enough, you start seeing 'em used again. Craw
Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.
Loyalty's a dangerous foundation. Tends to wash away in a storm. Self-interest stands in any weather.
The faster you run from the past, the faster it catches you. All you can do is turn to face it. Embrace it. Try and meet the future wiser for it.
Why do I do it, when it always hurts me? Why must we test the pain? Tongue the ulcer, rub the blister, pick the scab?
Mason had just pulled his own knife out, a monster of a thing you could've called a sword without much fear of correction.
And now the King is dead. Who knows who will replace him? Voting for a monarch! Have you ever heard of such a thing?
Being in charge can seem like a thing iron-forged, but in the end it's just an idea everyone agrees to.
A choice between killing and dying is no choice at all. You have to be realistic about these things. b
As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.
Shock and surprise, my little beauties, and quickness to strike, and lack of pity. These are the things that make a killer.
An open mind is like to an open wound. Vulnerable to poison. Liable to fester. Apt to give its owner only pain.
I never saw men act with such ignorance, violence and self-serving malice as when energised by a just cause.
The more you give a man, the more he demands, and the less happy he becomes. No one ever appreciates what he gets for nothing.
Memories sharp enough to cut himself on - the smells, the sounds, the feel of the air on his skin, the desperate hope and mad anger.
It's hard to stay calm when you're terrified, helpless, alone, at the mercy of men with no mercy at all.
That was an age of great men doing what was right ... This is an age of little men doing what they must.
One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great things.
You can always make enemies of your friends,' said Sumael. 'Making friends of your enemies is harder labor.
It was difficult to maintain any sense of superiority in the face of his utter dependence on other people.
You want to be merciful. To stand in the light. I understand it. I admire it. But, my queen ... Only the victors can be merciful.
Some men are made for doing violence. Some are meant for planning it. Then there are a special few whose talent is for taking the credit.
No one cares about the past any more," he whispered. "They don't see that you can't have a future without a past.
Strange how, as long as the hardship lasts, we can stand it. As soon as the crisis is over, the strength all leeches away in an instant.
This was a place of learning, and wonder, and great beauty.'
'Time has not been kind to the place.'
'Time is never kind.
'Time has not been kind to the place.'
'Time is never kind.
King Uthil says steel is the answer. I say his sight is short. Dust is the last answer to every question, now and always.
A few glasses of wine can be the difference between finding a man a hilarious companion or an insufferable moron.
They say a man lost in the desert must take such water as he is offered, no matter who it comes from. I
Power makes all things right. That is my first law, and my last. That is the only law that I acknowledge.
The world is full of monsters, after all. Perhaps the best one can hope for is to have the most terrible on your side.
The least a leader can do is to share the burdens of his people. I have little other comfort to give them.
You can never have too many knives, his father had told him. Unless they're pointed at you, and by people who don't like you much.
People love to see death. It reminds them that however mean, however low, however horrible their lives become ... at least they have one.
Good steel bends, but never breaks. Good steel stays always sharp and ready. Good steel feels no pain, no pity, and above all, no remorse
A dark-skinned young woman sat on the roof of the aftcastle, one leg swinging as she watched the new slaves shuffle across.
Welcome to my life of constant doubt, anxiety and occasional sudden and unpredictable horror, Javre. I hope you enjoy your fucking visit.
The most civilized place in the world," murmured Father Yarvi. "Though that mostly means folk prefer to stab each other in the back than in the front.
The stench of self-satisfaction is becoming quite suffocating. If you mean to kill me, blast me to a cinder now and let's be done,