651 Quotes by Joe Abercrombie

Things aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact. The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into the grave.

The ever so slightly stupid will act more stupidly in clever company.

Cleverness is no guarantee of sensible behavior.

If you want to be a fine new person with a fine new life you’ve got to put the person you were behind you, like a snake sheds its skin. You’ve got to stop picking through your hoard of hurts and grievances like a miser through his coins, set ’em down and allow yourself to go free. You’ve got to forgive and you’ve got to trust, not because anyone else deserves it, but because you do.

A man can forgive all manner of faults in beautiful women that in ugly men he find entirely beyond sufferance

I want a chance to do it all again. To do it… right.

Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.

They tell you drink makes you happy, but what they mean is it makes happy folk happier. They don't tell you that it makes unhappy folk more fucking unhappy than ever.

Where d'you get the knife?" He wished he had one."He gave it to me." There was a crumpled shape in the shadows by the wall, the matting all around soaked with dark blood. "This way.