651 Quotes by Joe Abercrombie

It’s hard to stay calm when you’re terrified, helpless, alone, at the mercy of men with no mercy at all.

Love and hate have just a knife’s edge between them.

A man with a missing eye after a man with a missing finger. There’s a song in there somewhere, I reckon.

Never take eggs from a metal-eyed man.

You cannot expect all the heroes to survive a good song.

It’s a rare man who’s made better by a bit of power.

We’re all like children, Rikke. The older you get, the more you realise the grown-ups won’t suddenly walk in and set things right. You want things right, you have to put ’em right yourself.

I don’t do sober any more. Sober hurts.

The goal of government, you see,” and the Arch Lector prodded at the air with his bony forefinger, “is to load the unhappiness onto those least able to make you suffer for it.