651 Quotes by Joe Abercrombie

...but if you hold off till everything's perfect, think of all the great kisses you'll miss.

People without hope are a dangerous crowd, even in a republic.

It was what you gave out that made a man, not what you got back.

Trust is like glass. Lovely, but only a fool rests lots of weight on it.

Trust. It was a word that only liars used. A word the truthful has no need of.

The sunrise was the colour of bad blood. It leaked out of the east and stained the dark sky red, marked the scraps of the cloud with stolen gold. Underneath it the road twisted up the mountainside towards the fortress of Fontezarmo - a cluster of sharp towers, ash-black again the wounded heavens. The sunrise was red, black and gold.The colours of their profession.

Mercy and cowardice are the same," she snapped out. "But you want their land, not their lives, no? Dead men can't obey.

Someone who'd starved in the camps, who'd lied her way into the hearts and beds of good people, who'd tricked and tortured to betray a cause she halfway believed in for the sake of one she didn't at all, might've felt a little bitter at seeing all this money wasted.

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