651 Quotes by Joe Abercrombie

Help was for the weak, and the weak die, or are made slaves. Never hope for help and you can never be disappointed when it does not come.

What did I do?" She turned and looked at him, standing there, wet hair dripping round his face. "What did I do, back there?""You got us through.""I meant-""You got us through. That's all.

If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?

The Bloody-Nine opened his mouth, and shrieked out all of his bottomless love and his endless hate in one long wail.

The lowly have small ambitions, and are satisfied with small indulgences. They need not get fair treatment. They need only think that they do...

Shivers heaved out a sigh. “Just trying to make tomorrow that bit better than today is all. I’m one of those … you’ve got a word for it, don’t you?”“Idiots?”He looked sideways at her. “It was a different one I had in mind.”“Optimists.”“That’s the one. I’m an optimist.”“How’s it working out for you?”“Not great, but I keep hoping.”“That’s optimists. You bastards never learn.

My name is Nicomo Cosca, famed solider of fortune, and I am here for dinner.

You are too full of your own hopes to hold anyone else's.

One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great things.