651 Quotes by Joe Abercrombie

But it’s ’cause real life is what it is that a man needs daydreams.

The best lessons one teaches oneself.

Freedom did not seem to have made anyone any less angry.

Fine lies beat tedious truths every time.

Didn’t seem likely, but what’s the point of likely fantasies?

Strange, how quickly a king could become an animal. Or half a king half an animal. Perhaps even those we raise highest never get that far above the mud.

History is littered with dead good men.

Those with bad luck should at least attempt to balance it with good sense.

Facing an enemy on the battlefield took courage, but you had your friends beside you. Standing alone against your friends, that was a different kind of courage.