651 Quotes by Joe Abercrombie

He would have liked to weigh his choices, but for that you need more than one.

I was too busy wallowing in pain and bitterness. Too busy being tragic.

Relief, or disappointment? Hard to tell the difference.

I never saw men act with such ignorance, violence and self-serving malice as when energised by a just cause.

That’s what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in the past. Starting again. Damning yesterday and facing tomorrow with your head held high. Times change. It’s those that see it coming, and plan for it, and change themselves to suit that prosper.

Words are weapons. They should be handled with proper care.

He had always thought of civilisation as a machine, cast from rigid iron, everything riveted in its proper place. Now he saw it was a fabric gauzy as a bride’s veil. A tissue everyone agrees to leave in place, but one that can be ripped away in an instant. And hell lurks just beneath.

Strong leaders might like it when someone brings ’em a better idea. But weak ones never do.

When men spoke of changing the world, they always meant to suit their own interests.