Joe Abercrombie Quotes

By swap news do you mean drink?" "I do, and that excessively.

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.

Men are brittle, I reckon. They don't bend into new shapes. They get broken into them. Crushed into them.

Are you entirely sure of that knot?' asked Morveer. 'There is no place in the plan for a lengthy drop'.'Twenty-eight strides', said Friendly.'What?''The drop'.A brief pause, 'That is not helpful'.

I apologise, your Highness. Murder can be a painful business.

Enough pain makes a coward of anyone.

One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great things.

The world is all change, my friend. We all would like to go back, but the past is done. We must look forwards. We must change ourselves, however painful it may be, or be left behind.

Every war carries within it the seeds of the next.

...Chief without soldiers is just a very lonely man in a big bloody field

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

So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You're a hero.

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.

Life's a queue of small irritations with the Last Door at the end.

Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from behind, and snatches us away while we shit.

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.

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.

So the fox killed his brother, the wolf. (Mother Scaer)

Mercy and cowardice are the same, " she snapped out. "But you want their land, not their lives, no? Dead men can't obey.

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.

To have a good enemy, choose a friend: he knows where to strike.

The best steel doesn't always shine the brightest.

Some men you stick to right off. But it's those that take time to stick that stick longest.

I want a chance to do it all again. To do it… right.

When you're in hell, only a devil can point the way out.

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

Sometimes, when someone lives in danger for too long, the only time they feel alive is when death's breathing on their shoulder.

Give Bethod a kick from me, once you have him under your boot.""That I will, unless he gets me under his.""Never easy, kicking upwards.

On the battlefield there are no rules.

You look especially beautiful this morning, Monza."That brought a smile to the corner of her mouth. The corner he couldn't see. "Well. Facts are facts.

Some men laugh easily. It makes them winning dinner companions.

Hurray', shouted Glokta. 'Porridge again!'He looked over at the motionless Practical. 'Porridge and honey, better than money, everything's funny, with porridge and honey!

The Bloody-Nine opened his mouth, and shrieked out all of his bottomless love and his endless hate in one long wail.

It was what you gave out that made a man, not what you got back.

Bravery is the dead man’s virtue.

But you know what they say - old milk turns sour but old scores just get sweeter.