Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back. — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“Life's a queue of small irritations with the Last Door at the end.” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“Friends are people one pretends to like in order to make life bearable.” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“That got him thinking about his life. It seemed a bitter, pointless sort of a life now.” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best. — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“But I guess you learn to stop hoping, after a while. Life teaches you to expect the worst, eh?” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things,… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“I’d hate to be lost. But prepare yourself for the possibility of disappointment. Life is full of them.” And the manner of… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
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… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“So often in life, moments that are long anticipated turn out to be profound disappointments.” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse.” —Joseph Brodsky” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“I spent half my childhood in the shadows. Hiding from my father or my brother. Creeping from a place of solitude to… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“The Forest that had been about her all her life, certain as a mountain, was made ashes. The high gable that had… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“You stick a bunch of drunken murderers together, ain't long before some turn to thieving, then to lying, then to bad language,… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“Rulf laid a single arrow beside the body, and Koll reckoned he was struggling to keep back tears. ‘From nothing, to nothing,’… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“That got him thinking about his life. It seemed a bitter, pointless sort of life now. No one was any better off… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Chose? If you believe that I chose any part of the pitiful shadow of a life you see before you, you are… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“One day you're something, so promising and full o' dares, so big the world's too small a place to hold you. Then,… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“Looked at with the benefit of hindsight, his life, which at time had felt like a series of ingenious escapes, resembled rather… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
All your life spent getting ready for the next thing. I climbed a lot of hills now. I crossed a lot of… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“He is dead and I, the self serving coward that I am, still live. Life is not fair. There is no pattern.… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“Nothing had worked out the way he’d hoped. He should’ve expected it by now, maybe. After all, things never had before. And… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“You ever have the feeling you were in the wrong place? That if you could just get over the next hill, cross… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“He looked around at that one room, and the few things in it. He'd always thought retiring would be going back to… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“I’ve fought in three campaigns,” he began. “In seven pitched battles. In countless raids and skirmishes and desperate defences, and bloody actions… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“Life rarely turns out the way we expect. We must bend with the circumstances.” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“It all slips by so fast. Slips by and you hardly notice, like leaves on the water. Savour the little moments, son,… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“She shrugged. “I fell. I’m a clumsy fool.” “I know how you feel. I’m such a fool I knocked half my teeth out and… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share
Things aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share
“Mercy and weakness are the same thing in war, and there's no prize for nice behavior.” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share
“The lowly have small ambitions, and are satisfied with small indulgences. They need not get fair treatment. They need only think that they do... ” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share
“What do the dice say?" Dice say nothing. They are dice." Why roll'em, then?" They are dice. What else would I do with them?” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share
“That was the difference between a hero and a villain, a soldier and a murderer, a victory and a crime. Which side of a… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share
“Nostalgia was becoming a favoured hobby of his. Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share
Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud. — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share
“Knives,’ muttered Calder, ‘and threats, and bribes, and war?’ Bayaz’ eyes shone with the lamplight. ‘Yes?’ ‘What kind of a fucking wizard are you?’… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share
“Straining and straining, getting nowhere, but unable to stop pushing in case the rock should fall and crush him. Meanwhile, arrogant bastards who were… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share
“Yarvi: 'If we had known the hardship of it, we might have chosen another.' Shidwala: 'So it is with many choices.' Yarvi: 'All we… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share
Sometimes men change for the better. Sometimes men change for the worse. And often, very often, given time and opportunity . . .’ He… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share
“A bitter ending' said Yarvi. 'Many sweet stories have them', said Jaud.” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share
