651 Quotes by Joe Abercrombie

What better foundation for an alliance than mutual hatred and suspicion?

The older you get, the more swiftly the years pass. It’s easy to forget how quickly people die.

But it is easy to speak of the past, impossible to go there. I am powerful in ways you can only dream, yet I am still a prisoner of what I have done. I can never escape the cell I have made for myself. Things are what they are.

He had discovered early in his military career that if one has an effective and experienced officer above, coupled with effective and experienced soldiers below, one need do, and know, nothing.

Gratitude and resentment are brothers eternal, after all.

But I’d rather not add to my regrets. The gods know I got a queue of the bastards.

Pardon me,’ said Glokta, wiping his running eye with a finger, ’but I spent two years in the Emperor’s prisons. I daresay, if I had known I’d be there half that long at the start, I would have made a more concerted effort to kill myself.

Never doubt another’s choices, I say. You can’t know his reasons.

Being in charge can seem like a thing iron-forged, but in the end it’s just an idea everyone agrees to.