651 Quotes by Joe Abercrombie

Disbelieve this sword, it will still cut you. He is God. We all walk His path regardless.

She was not a woman to be deterred by hatred: not from her workers, not from her rivals, not from the men she bullied, bribed or blackmailed to get her way. It is when they truly hate you, after all, that you know you have won. So she met the seething dislike with effortless superiority, paraded past with her shoulders back and chin high. If she was to be cast as the villain, so be it. They were always the most interesting characters anyway.

There aren’t many good things don’t have a splinter of selfishness in them somewhere, after all.

You have to pick your moment. He’d always said so. Told everyone who’d listen. Have to recognise it when it comes, and seize it, with no care for the past and no worries about the future.

When one man knowingly kills another, they call it murder! When society causes the deaths of thousands, they shrug and call it a fact of life.

What is love anyway, but finding someone who suits you? Someone who makes up for your shortcomings? Someone you can work with. Work on.

Damn, he was bored. It was a fact, he was only now beginning to realise, that the conversation of the drunk is only interesting to the drunk. A few glasses on wine can be the difference between finding a man a hilarious companion or an insufferable moron.

But some things have to be done. Better to do ’em, than to live with the fear of ’em.

Government is tyranny. At its best it is dressed in pretty colours.