651 Quotes by Joe Abercrombie

A set of huge marble busts stared smugly down from on high: great merchants and financiers of Styrian history, by the look of them. Criminals made heroes by colossal success.

Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit.

Are you entirely sure of that knot?' asked Morveer. 'There is no place in the plan for a lengthy drop'.'Twenty-eight strides', said Friendly.'What?''The drop'.A brief pause, 'That is not helpful'.

You have to love the small things, when you’venothing else.

Votes? Elections? The voice of the common man? I hope you aired the suitable level of contempt. Power for the people? They don’t want it. They don’t understand it. What the hell would they do with it if they had it? The people are like children. They are children. They need someone to tell them what to do.

Easy, now, and listen to me. It hurts, yes. Seems like more than you can take, but it isn't. You think you're going to die, but you won't. Listen to me, because I've been there, and I know. Each minute. Each hour. Each day, it gets better.

A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.

I apologise, your Highness. Murder can be a painful business.

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