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Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.
— Joe Abercrombie
He'd done the right thing. Maybe. Or maybe there's no such thing.
— Joe Abercrombie
There's no curse like getting what you want.
— Joe Abercrombie
We all got our reasons ... good men and bad men. It's all a matter of where you stand.
— Joe Abercrombie
exceeded every expectation. It was built on a wide promontory that
— Joe Abercrombie
I always thought of being together as the end of the work. Turns out it's where the work starts.
— Joe Abercrombie
Every hero is someone's villain.
— Joe Abercrombie
Summers past love company, seems every time you turn around there's more o' the bastards at your back.
— Joe Abercrombie
We all have luck, good and bad. It's how you meet it that matters
— Joe Abercrombie
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.
— Joe Abercrombie
Schlepping all of the equipment is the part I hate more than anything.
— John Abercrombie
Empathy? What's that?" Glokta winced as he rubbed at his aching leg. "It's a sad fact, but pain only makes you sorry for yourself.
— Joe Abercrombie
I apologise, your Highness. Murder can be a painful business.
— Joe Abercrombie
Loyalty's a dangerous foundation. Tends to wash away in a storm. Self-interest stands in any weather.
— Joe Abercrombie
Any man can do what he likes. Right, Splitfoot?''Right, Chief.'
'Just as long as it's exactly what I fucking tell 'em to do. — Joe Abercrombie
Some things have to be done. It's better to do them, than to live with the fear of them.
— Joe Abercrombie
I've made peace with myself.Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win.
Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting. — Joe Abercrombie
Being in charge can seem like a thing iron-forged, but in the end it's just an idea everyone agrees to.
— Joe Abercrombie
When the best you can get from your wife's father is that he won't help to kill you, it doesn't take a clever man to see you're in shit to your chin.
— Joe Abercrombie
He's really dead?"Benna blew out his cheeks. "Well, his head's off, and spiked above the gates, so unless you know one hell of a physician ... — Joe Abercrombie
Men are brittle, I reckon. They don't bend into new shapes. They get broken into them. Crushed into them.
— Joe Abercrombie
One need not love one's enemy, or even fear him, to desire peace. One need only love oneself.
— Joe Abercrombie
Didn't seem likely, but what's the point of likely fantasies?
— Joe Abercrombie
A lot of wasted time, to the Dogman's mind, but once you've been fool enough to ask for a task, you better do the one you're given.n
— Joe Abercrombie
I'm a fucking coward.""Maybe." Craw jerked his thumb over his shoulder at Whirrun's corpse. "There's a hero. Tell me who's better off. — Joe Abercrombie
All heroes' news, like something from the songs, but there's nothing like others' successes to make your own failures sting the worse.
— Joe Abercrombie
If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.
— Joe Abercrombie
Bayaz chuckled. "The Bloody-Nine, scared of shadows? I'd never have believed it." "Every shadow's cast by something," growled the Northman,
— Joe Abercrombie
Secrets, power. It's all a metaphor.
— Joe Abercrombie
There's always a worse case than your worst case, and more often than not, it happens.
— Joe Abercrombie
Strange, that however tough one's skin becomes in later life, the wounds of youth never close. Shenkt
— Joe Abercrombie
Justice can have what's left when I'm done.
— Joe Abercrombie
You can weep over each other's hidden nobility when we're safe!
— Joe Abercrombie
Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
— Lascelles Abercrombie
Sometimes, when someone lives in danger for too long, the only time they feel alive is when death's breathing on their shoulder.
— Joe Abercrombie
It is my sad observation that some men always want more.
— Joe Abercrombie
better next time. That's what life is." Logen
— Joe Abercrombie
It's hard to stay calm when you're terrified, helpless, alone, at the mercy of men with no mercy at all.
— Joe Abercrombie
A man's worst enemies are his own ambitions.
— Joe Abercrombie
Modesty's for folk with nothing to boast of.
— Joe Abercrombie
I'm trying to put things in the best light, but a turd's a turd, whatever light it's in!
— Joe Abercrombie
There's no disappointment like getting what you've always wanted ...
— Joe Abercrombie
There's no changing yesterday. Only tomorrow.
— Joe Abercrombie
Bravery is the dead man's virtue.
— Joe Abercrombie
Savor the little moments, son, that's my advice. They're what life is. All the little things that happen while you're waiting for something else.
— Joe Abercrombie
Half a King is my favorite book by Joe Abercrombie so far, and that's saying something.
— Patrick Rothfuss
These awful middle-class queens - which is what the gay movement has become - are so tiresome. It's all Abercrombie & Fitch and strollers.
— Rupert Everett
But you can't truly hate a man without loving him first, and there's always a trace of that love left over.
— Joe Abercrombie
You keep your guard too low, I am afraid. You are full of passion, but passion without discipline is no more than a child's tantrum.
— Joe Abercrombie
They say it's men with nothing to lose you should fear. But it's them who fear most.
— Joe Abercrombie
Just keep your mouth shut and smile. That's always good advice.' Jezal
— Joe Abercrombie
Why the mad hair, girl?""Because damn you," growled Thorn, "that's why. — Joe Abercrombie
A man with a missing eye after a man with a missing finger. There's a song in there somewhere, I reckon.
— Joe Abercrombie
I don't see what I want to see, I see what I need to see. If you don't like it, see something else
— Joe Abercrombie
You are a gentleman, sir,' muttered Cosca. 'I am a murderer.' 'I see no reason why a man cannot be both . . .
— Joe Abercrombie
So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You're a hero.
— Joe Abercrombie
Doing better next time. That's what life is.
— Joe Abercrombie
That's what an idiot does when he gets angry. He destroys whatever's nearest, even if it's his own house!
— Joe Abercrombie
Worry less about what the gods might do and more about what you can,
— Joe Abercrombie
A few glasses of wine can be the difference between finding a man a hilarious companion or an insufferable moron.
— Joe Abercrombie
Knowledge is so often the antidote to fear. But not here. Not now.
— Joe Abercrombie
Plans have a way of coming apart when you lean om 'em
— Joe Abercrombie
Some men you stick to right off. But it's those that take time to stick that stick longest.
— Joe Abercrombie
They say a man lost in the desert must take such water as he is offered, no matter who it comes from. I
— Joe Abercrombie
Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.
— Joe Abercrombie
Power makes all things right. That is my first law, and my last. That is the only law that I acknowledge.
— Joe Abercrombie
But I guess you learn to stop hoping, after a while. Life teaches you to expect the worst, eh?
— Joe Abercrombie
'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin with Everest.
— Joe Abercrombie
He's living in a dream! Pandered to, and coddled, and utterly spoiled his whole life! That boy and the real world are entire strangers to one another!
— Joe Abercrombie
How dare you presume to be devoted to me, peasant? You're like a tick devoted to a tiger!
— Joe Abercrombie
You have to realistic about these things.
— Joe Abercrombie
Abercrombie is only interested in people with washboard stomachs who look like they're about to jump on a surfboard.
— Mike Jeffries
He had learned long ago that life became much easier if you ignored what was not right before you.
— Joe Abercrombie
It's what you give out that makes a man, not what you get back.
— Joe Abercrombie
Never doubt another's choices, I say. You can't know his reasons.
— Joe Abercrombie
The wise wait for their moment, but never let it pass.
— Joe Abercrombie
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,
— Joe Abercrombie
You were a hero round these parts. That's what they call you when you kill so many people the word murderer falls short.
— Joe Abercrombie
A good leader can't dwell on the choices he's made, Threetrees used to tell him, and a good leader can't help dwelling on 'em.
— Joe Abercrombie
Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.
— Joe Abercrombie
The older you get, the more swiftly the years pass. It's easy to forget how quickly people die.
— Joe Abercrombie
A man doesn't put on a mask unless he's got some dark work in mind.
— Joe Abercrombie
Say one thing for Logen Ninefingers, say he's a lover.
— Joe Abercrombie
Mercy and weakness are the same thing in war, and there's no prize for nice behavior.
— Joe Abercrombie
Courage can come fro many places, and be made of many things, and yesterday's coward can become tomorrow's hero in an instant if the time is right.
— Joe Abercrombie
If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
— Lascelles Abercrombie
A whore with a veil is mysterious. God's ways appear to be ... insane.
— Joe Abercrombie
Heresy and progress often look much alike.
— Joe Abercrombie
You are as wise as you are beautiful, Thorn Bathu.
— Joe Abercrombie
Conscience and the cock-rot are hardly equivalent,' snapped Lorsen.'Indeed,' said Cosca, significantly. 'The cock-rot is rarely fatal. — Joe Abercrombie
Once your hands get bloody it ain't so easy to get 'em clean.
— Joe Abercrombie