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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

Kill me?' The Bloody-Nine laughed louder than ever. 'I do the killing, fool! — 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

Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it. — 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

There's no style of contempt like the stuff one kind of savage has for another, — 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

That's the trouble with running. Wherever you run to, that's where you are. — 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

Remember, though, that you are the king's observer, not the king's champion. — 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

You have to be grateful for the small things, when any minute might be your last. — 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

The ground must be a general's best friend, or it becomes his worst enemy. — 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

No plague spreads quicker than panic, Stolicus wrote, nor is more deadly. The — 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

The general with the smallest numbers should remain always on the offensive. — 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