Joe Abercrombie

“That's the most wounding betrayal of all. The one by your own flesh. Live long enough, you see everything ruined.”

— Joe Abercrombie

“exceeded every expectation. It was built on a wide promontory that”

— Joe Abercrombie

“Courage can come fro many places, and be made of many things, and yesterday's coward can become tomorrow's hero in an instant…

— Joe Abercrombie

“Have you no pity?' Glokta could only shrug. 'I did have. As a boy I was soft-hearted beyond the point of foolishness.…

— Joe Abercrombie

“Life is a series of things we would rather not do.”

— 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

I've made peace with myself. Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win. Didn't say I won. Just stopped…

— Joe Abercrombie

“It is so often the small things overlooked which leave our schemes in ruins.”

— 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

“My father used to say the seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.”

— Joe Abercrombie

“Honour, eh? What the hell is that anyway? Every man thinks it's something different. You can't drink it. You can't fuck it.…

— Joe Abercrombie

“I guess most of 'em mean well.' 'Someday you can build a boat from meaning well and see how floats.' 'Tried that.…

— Joe Abercrombie

“You cannot expect all the heroes to survive a good song”

— Joe Abercrombie

“All an arsehole knows about is shit. ~ Dogman”

— Joe Abercrombie

“I am First of the Magi. I am the last authority and I say . . . I am righteous.’ ‘You? No.’…

— Joe Abercrombie

“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

“Power makes all things right. That is my first law, and my last. That is the only law that I acknowledge.”

— Joe Abercrombie

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

— Joe Abercrombie

I just think TV is becoming more and more interesting in a way. Films are more and more derivative, you know, whether…

— Joe Abercrombie

If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who…

— Joe Abercrombie

History is littered with dead good men

— Joe Abercrombie

“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

Those with the least always lose the most in war.

— Joe Abercrombie

Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.

— 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