Quotes from Joe Abercrombie

You don't pick your family, you take what you're given and you make the best of it.

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

War without fire is as worthless as sausages without mustard" Henry V

If there is one thing I have learned in all my many last stands, it is that death is never certain, only… extremely likely.

They say you can see all the beauty in the world in the way a hanged man swings.

You can always make enemies of your friends,' said Sumael. 'Making friends of your enemies is harder labor.

Reassuring lies had always been the glue that held his family together, after all.

Patience is the parent of success.

No soy un guerrero. —Sí que lo eres. —Un guerrero no se asusta. —Un necio no se asusta. Un guerrero resiste a pesar del miedo, y tú has resistido.

Never trust a man beyond his own interests.

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.

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

The elves knew the true names of these rivers,' said Skifr, who'd made a kind of bed among the cargo to drape herself on. 'We call them Divine and Denied because those are as close as our clumsy human tongues can come.

I don't do sober any more. Sober hurts.

The truth is complicated, full of mixed emotions and blurred outcomes and each-way bets. The truth… is a hard sell.

Stour was the future of the North. Always had been. And with all those old warriors lying slaughtered on the bloody floor of the hall, it seemed the future had come early.

El dolor es el mejor combustible para avivar un fuego.

Your grandfather's dream—' he whispered, like all his grand schemes could be unfucked. Like King Scale could be unkilled.

Eszébe jutott Frieflif sörének íze, és megnyalta a szája szélét, de ekkor elkapta Rulf rosszalló pillantását, és egyb?l eszébe jutott Friedlif sörének íze, amikor éppen visszafelé jött.

Cuanto más se aprende, más cuenta se da uno de lo poco que sabe. Aun así, el propio esfuerzo compensa. Al fin y al cabo, el conocimiento es la raíz de todo poder.

Small things only seem smaller in large spaces.

A man has to bend with the breeze.' The Great Wolf's grin was wider than ever. 'You're a bastard, Clover. But you're my kind of bastard.' Stour's kind of bastard. That was where all his cleverness had got him.

In war, you seize all the high ground you can.' He lifted the egg to his lips, looking small between his big finger and thumb. 'Except the moral kind.' And he sucked the insides out through the hole. 'That ain't worth shit.

Perhaps this would be a great day, the first of a great era, and he would be proud in after years to have had his part in it. Even if his part had been a dark one. Some men, after all, can only play dark parts. - Shenkt