651 Quotes by Joe Abercrombie

Broken hearts heal with time, but broken teeth never do.

It’s an easy thing to make a man a carcass. He knew a thousand ways to do it. But once you’ve done it, there’s no going back. One minute he’s a man, all full up with hopes, and thoughts, and dreams. A man with friends, and family, and a place where he’s from. Next minute he’s mud.

Defeats do men far more good than victories.

The people far prefer a leader who appears great, to one who is.

One step at a time,’ he muttered to himself as he clambered up the slope. That was the only way to look at it. If you clenched your teeth hard enough, and took enough strides, you could get anywhere. One painful, weary, freezing, guilty step at a time.

Monza raised her brows. A strange group she’d gathered, surely, but when you have a half-mad plan you need men at least half-mad to see it through. Sane ones might be tempted to look for a better idea.

Always the ones quickest to insults got the thinnest skin, for some reason.

By swap news do you mean drink?” “I do, and that excessively.

It is easy to speak of the past, impossible to go there.