Time Quotes by Joe Abercrombie

“Either you are a part of my future, or a relic of the past.”

— Joe Abercrombie

You should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.

— Joe Abercrombie

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

— Joe Abercrombie

Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.

— Joe Abercrombie

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

— Joe Abercrombie

The wise wait for their moment, but never let it pass.

— Joe Abercrombie

“No one cares about the past any more,’ he whispered. ‘They don’t see that you can’t have a future without a past.’…

— Joe Abercrombie

“If you clenched your teeth hard enough, and took enough strides, you could get anywhere. One painful, weary, freezing, guilty step at…

— Joe Abercrombie

“Summers past love company, seems every time you turn around there's more o' the bastards at your back.”

— Joe Abercrombie

“These are dangerous times alright, and yet danger and opportunity often walk hand in hand.”

— Joe Abercrombie

“Tell your father he must come himself. I do not waste my time on fools and younger sons. I am old fashioned…

— Joe Abercrombie

“Here is the perennial trouble with burying your past. Others are forever trying to dig it up.”

— 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…

— Joe Abercrombie

Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the…

— Joe Abercrombie

“It could give you some tough moments, your word. Could force you into places you didn't want to be, could serve you…

— Joe Abercrombie

“One act presses hard upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons.…

— Joe Abercrombie

“We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but…

— Joe Abercrombie

“There was a time he’d heard tales of Dab Sweet and he’d stuck thumbs in his belt and chin to the sky…

— Joe Abercrombie

“All the great heroes of old, you know - the great kings, the great generals - they all faced adversity from time…

— Joe Abercrombie

“It all slips by so fast. Slips by and you hardly notice, like leaves on the water. Savour the little moments, son,…

— Joe Abercrombie

“Looked at with the benefit of hindsight, his life, which at time had felt like a series of ingenious escapes, resembled rather…

— 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

“Her knee caught him between the legs with pitiless accuracy, driving the wind from his chest, making him teeter for a breathless…

— Joe Abercrombie

“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

“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

“He felt a strange urge, right then, just to put his head down and walk past, off into the night and never…

— Joe Abercrombie

“Bury it with me. Time was I thought it was a blessing and a curse. But it’s only a curse, and I…

— Joe Abercrombie

“This is stupid." "Look. You think how stupid people are most of the time. Old men drink. Women at a village fair.…

— Joe Abercrombie

“Cosca smiled up at the dragon, hands on hips. ‘It certainly is a remarkable curiosity. A magnificent relic. But against what is…

— Joe Abercrombie

“So often in life, moments that are long anticipated turn out to be profound disappointments.”

— Joe Abercrombie

A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a…

— 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…

— Joe Abercrombie

“patience is the chief of virtues," his father used to say, and "you won't cross the mountains in a day." Time might…

— Joe Abercrombie

“Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on…

— Joe Abercrombie

Sometimes men change for the better. Sometimes men change for the worse. And often, very often, given time and opportunity . .…

— Joe Abercrombie

“One act presses upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We…

— Joe Abercrombie

“If you have a plan," hissed Sumael from the corner of her mouth, "now would be the time." "I have a plan,"…

— Joe Abercrombie

“That blood only makes more blood. That settling one score only starts another. That war gives a bastard of a sour taste…

— Joe Abercrombie