Joe Abercrombie Quotes
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“There was a time hed heard tales of Dab Sweet and hed stuck thumbs in his belt and chin to the sky and tricked himself that was how his life had been. But the years scraped by hard as ever and he got less and the stories more til they were tales of a man hed never met succeeding at what hed never have dreamed of attempting.”
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— Joe Abercrombie
“Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.”
— Joe Abercrombie
— Joe Abercrombie
— Joe Abercrombie
Evil turned out not to be a grand thing. Not sneering Emperors with their world-conquering designs. Not cackling demons plotting in the darkness beyond the world. It was small men with their small acts and their small reasons. It was selfishness and carelessness and waste. It was bad luck, incompetence, and stupidity. It was violence divorced from conscience or consequence. It was high ideals, even, and low methods.
— Joe Abercrombie
— Joe Abercrombie
History is littered with dead good men.
— Joe Abercrombie
Some things have to be done. It's better to do them, than to live with the fear of them.
— Joe Abercrombie
“Justice can have what's left when I'm done.”
— Joe Abercrombie
— Joe Abercrombie
We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then one day we look up and find that we are ... this.
— Joe Abercrombie
— Joe Abercrombie
“A whore with a veil is mysterious. God's ways appear to be ... insane.”
— Joe Abercrombie
“A man doesn't put on a mask unless he's got some dark work in mind.”
— Joe Abercrombie
I've been on jobs like that before, everyone stuck on the money not the work, watching their backs every minute. Bad for your health and your business. We'll do this civilised, or not at all. What do you say?
"I say civilised," said Shenkt. "For pity's sake, let's kill like honest men.
— Joe Abercrombie
Different men have different ways, Logen had told him once, and you have to have fear to have courage.
— Joe Abercrombie
“I have seen hell, it is a great city under siege.”
— Joe Abercrombie
— Joe Abercrombie
— Joe Abercrombie
“Lies. The hardest kind to see through. The kind you tell yourself.”
— Joe Abercrombie
“We all got our reasons ... good men and bad men. It's all a matter of where you stand.”
— Joe Abercrombie
“Friends can be useful. If nothing else, a friend is one less enemy.”
— Joe Abercrombie
— Joe Abercrombie
She surely can cook a fight from the most peaceful ingredients. But nothing worth doing is easy. I love her in spite of it. I love her because of it. I love her." And his face broke out in that grin again. "Every day's a new adventure, that's for sure.
— Joe Abercrombie
“Some men you stick to right off. But it's those that take time to stick that stick longest.”
— Joe Abercrombie
“No one gets what they deserve.”
— Joe Abercrombie
They say the seed you scatter will be the seed you harvest,
— Joe Abercrombie
“He was less and less sure with every day that being a better man was worth all the effort.”
— Joe Abercrombie
“In bloody days, swords were worth more than gods.”
— Joe Abercrombie
“There's no curse like getting what you want.”
— Joe Abercrombie
Did you see it?" asked Yarvi.
"I had that questionable privilege."
"What do you think?"
"She is wretched. She is all pride and anger. She has too much confidence and too little. She does not know herself." The figure pushed back her hood. A black-skinned old woman with a face lean as famine and hair shaved to gray fuzz. She picked her nose with one long forefinger, carefully examined the results, then flicked them away "The girl is stupid as a stump. Worse. Most stumps have the dignity to rot quietly without causing offense."
"I'm right here," Thorn managed to hiss from her hands and knees.
"Just where the drunk boy put you." The woman flashed a smile at Brand that seemed to have too many teeth. "I like him, though: he is pretty and desperate. My favorite combination.
— Joe Abercrombie
Strange how, as long as the hardship lasts, we can stand it. As soon as the crisis is over, the strength all leeches away in an instant.
— Joe Abercrombie
“We all have luck, good and bad. It's how you meet it that matters”
— Joe Abercrombie
— Joe Abercrombie
By swap news do you mean drink?" "I do, and that excessively.
— Joe Abercrombie
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