651 Quotes by Joe Abercrombie

Oftentimes,’ murmured Whirrun, ’a man’s better served embracing his pain than trying to escape it. Things are smaller when you face ’em.

There was nothing to be gained by losing his temper. There was never anything to be gained by that.

Dogman and Dow, Tul and Grim, West and Pike. Six of them, stood in a circle and looking down at two piles of cold earth. Below in the valley, the Union were busy burying their own dead, Dogman had seen it. Hundreds of ’em, in pits for a dozen each. It was a bad day for men, all in all, and a good one for the ground. Always the way, after a battle. Only the ground wins. Shivers.

Give me only evil men for friends, Verturio wrote. Them I understand.

The more you learn, the more you realize how little you know. Still, the struggle itself is worthwhile. Knowledge is the root of power, after all.

One need not love one’s enemy, or even fear him, to desire peace. One need only love oneself.

That was an age of great men doing what was right... This is an age of little men doing what they must.

You make yourself too hard, you make yourself brittle too. Crack once, crack all to pieces.

Madmen and fools feel no fear. Heroes fear and face the danger anyway.