Joe Abercrombie

“Say one thing for Logen Ninefingers...”

— Joe Abercrombie

“It’s a hard world. No one gets what they deserve.”

— Joe Abercrombie

“Everything sounds fairer in the daylight.”

— Joe Abercrombie

“Doing better next time. That’s what life is.”

— Joe Abercrombie

“Got to have fear to have courage,”

— Joe Abercrombie

History is littered with dead good men

— Joe Abercrombie

Those with the least always lose the most in war.

— Joe Abercrombie

“Well. What can we do, except try to do better?”

— 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 was nothing to be gained by losing his temper. There was never anything to be gained by that.”

— Joe Abercrombie

It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.

— Joe Abercrombie

“You can weep over each other's hidden nobility when we're safe!”

— Joe Abercrombie

“loyalty’s a dangerous foundation. Tends to wash away in a storm. Self-interest stands in any weather.”

— Joe Abercrombie

“If there was a God, the world seemed exactly the way it would be if there wasn’t one.”

— Joe Abercrombie

“That's the trouble with answers. They're never as exciting as the questions, somehow.”

— Joe Abercrombie

“An open mind is like to an open wound,' growled Glokta. 'Vulnerable to poison.”

— Joe Abercrombie

“Some men are made for doing violence. Some are meant for planning it. Then there are a special few whose talent is…

— Joe Abercrombie

“It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not. “Something”

— Joe Abercrombie

“The lowly squabble over trifles. The great wage secret wars for power and wealth, and they call it government. Wars of words,…

— Joe Abercrombie

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

— Joe Abercrombie

“One should learn the lessons of history. The mistakes of the past need only be made once. Unless there are no other…

— Joe Abercrombie

“I apologise if I bore you!’ ‘I accept your apology.’ ‘I was joking!’ ‘Ah. Your wit is so very sharp I hardly…

— Joe Abercrombie

“They have that most strange and dangerous of qualities,” said Cosca. “They think they’re in the right.”

— Joe Abercrombie

“Oh well,” sighed Glokta. “A man has to have hope doesn’t he?” “Of course sir,” muttered the servant, heading for the door.…

— Joe Abercrombie

“Conscience can be painful but so can the cock-rot. A grown-up should suffer his afflictions privately and not allow them to become…

— Joe Abercrombie

“And Yarvi realized that Death does not bow to each person who passes her, does not sweep out her arm respectfully to…

— Joe Abercrombie

“The birth of spring is perhaps not the best time to cross a mountain range,’ observed Longfoot under his breath. Bayaz looked…

— Joe Abercrombie

“Damn, he was bored. It was a fact, he was only now beginning to realise, that the conversation of the drunk is…

— Joe Abercrombie

“They appear somewhat unreliable," he murmured. "Unreliable? Nonsense, Superior! Out of luck is all, and we both know how that goes, no?…

— Joe Abercrombie

“Jezal had often observed that the ever so slightly stupid will act more stupidly in clever company. Having lost the high ground…

— Joe Abercrombie

“All you can do is take each day as it comes. Try and do the best you can with what you're given.…

— Joe Abercrombie

“I'm no drunk,” croaked Cosca. “I simply like the taste of wine. So much so that I have to drink some every…

— Joe Abercrombie

“These boots are worth more than you, damn it!' Shadikshirram was sitting on her bed, eyes shining wet, straining forward and trying…

— Joe Abercrombie

“Honest men are so very rare, they are often mistaken for criminals, for rebels, for madmen. What were your crimes, anyway, but…

— Joe Abercrombie

“The smell of it. The feel of it." He rubbed one hand up and down the stained sheath of his sword, making…

— Joe Abercrombie

“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

“I never saw a man killed before.’ ‘You’re lucky.’ ‘You’ve seen a lot of death, then?’ Logen winced. In his youth, he…

— Joe Abercrombie

“The man screamed, and screamed behind his mask, and the Bloody-Nine laughed, and twisted the blade. Logen might have pitied him, but…

— Joe Abercrombie

“Shy South comes home to her farm to find a blackened shell, her brother and sister stolen, and knows she’ll have to…

— Joe Abercrombie

“Inquisitor Lorsen's thin lip curled. "There is truly nothing in you of what separates man from animal, is there? You are bereft…

— Joe Abercrombie