651 Quotes by Joe Abercrombie

Winning teaches you nothing,” said Tunny. “You see what a man really is when he loses.

The definition of all right changes with the passing winters, I find. I’m about all right by the standards of the last few days. Twenty years ago I’d have considered this close to death.

You keep your wine in a paper bag, you shouldn’t be too upset when it leaks.

Along with the constant pain was the constant need to pretend you weren’t in pain at all, as though the worst thing about your agony was that it might put other people out.

Strange how, as long as the hardship lasts, we can stand it. As soon as the crisis is over, the strength all leeches away in an instant.

That’s the trouble with running. Wherever you run to, that’s where you are.

It’s a hard world. No one gets what they deserve.

The truth is overrated.” Vick let the purse drop into his hand. “An actor should know that.

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. Seven hundred days, give or take, in the darkness. As close to hell, I would have thought, as a living man can go. My point is this – if you mean to upset me, you’ll need more than harsh language.