“Summers past love company, seems every time you turn around there's more o' the bastards at your back.” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“What are you going to do?’ whispered Temple. ‘There was a time I’d have gone charging over there without a thought for… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
You should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards. — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“Well,” Logen had to admit, “there is that.” Luthar’s head dropped even lower, and Logen clapped him on the arm. “But you… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“One act presses upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“The birth of spring is perhaps not the best time to cross a mountain range,’ observed Longfoot under his breath. Bayaz looked… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on… — 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
A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“One act presses hard upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons.… — 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 Image
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 Image
“Mercy and weakness are the same thing in war, and there's no prize for nice behavior.” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“The only difference between war and murder is the number of dead.” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image