Joe Abercrombie

“I used to love to hear stories of that man’s exploits! One of my heroes, when I was young. Riding round the…

— Joe Abercrombie

“The dead can forgive. The dead can be forgiven. The rest of us have better things to do. (Monza Murcatto)”

— Joe Abercrombie

“Poison? A slow death twitching and puking on the Arch Lector’s lovely mosaic floor? Or just pitching onto my face on his…

— Joe Abercrombie

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

— Joe Abercrombie

“Plans have a way of coming apart when you lean om 'em”

— Joe Abercrombie

“Strange, isn't it,' mused Glokta as he watched him struggle for air. 'Big men, small men, thin men, fat men, clever men,…

— Joe Abercrombie

“But that was civilisation, so far as Logen could tell. People with nothing better to do, dreaming up ways to make easy…

— Joe Abercrombie

Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a…

— Joe Abercrombie

“Got to have fear to have courage,”

— 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

“The skies make no special dispensation for Magi, boy, they piss on everyone the same.”

— Joe Abercrombie

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

— 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

People love to see death. It reminds them that however mean, however low, however horrible their lives become… at least they have…

— 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

“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

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

— Joe Abercrombie

“People have often accused me of inconsistency but i feel that i have always, at any given junction, done the same thing.…

— Joe Abercrombie

“Amazing the rubbish idiots will believe if you shout it loudly enough.”

— Joe Abercrombie

“The Forest that had been about her all her life, certain as a mountain, was made ashes. The high gable that had…

— Joe Abercrombie

“There can be a greater power in words than in all the steel within the Circle of the World.”

— Joe Abercrombie

“I would be the last to disagree, but you fail to see that you are worse. No man capable of greater evil…

— 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

“And then Ardee herself was so much more complicated in person than she had been as a silent memory. Nine parts witty,…

— Joe Abercrombie

Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.

— Joe Abercrombie