651 Quotes by Joe Abercrombie

Vengeance only walks a circle. From blood, back to blood. Death waits for us all. You can follow your path to her bent under a burden of rage. I did, for many years. You can let it poison you.” He took a long breath, and let it sigh away. “Or you can let it go.

How you feeling Forley?’ asked the Dogman. ‘Bad, but you got to have fear to have courage.

In my experience, a friend is merely an acquaintance who has yet to betray you.

But that’s the nice thing about looking backwards. You can pick out the bits that suit your story and toss the unhappy truths to the wind.

But chaos is the natural state of things, for men pull always in their own directions. It is those who want the world to march all the same way that give themselves the challenge.

Enough to make a man believe in God,’ said Temple. ‘And that He’s somewhere else.

You stick a bunch of drunken murderers together, ain’t long before some turn to thieving, then to lying, then to bad language, and pretty soon to sobriety, raising families and making an honest living.

I find reputations rarely fit people all that well. What are they, after all, but costumes we put on to disguise ourselves?

One should learn the lessons of history. The mistakes of the past need only be made once.