Quotes from Joe Abercrombie

Doubts and regrets, Isern. They're the cost of casting a shadow.

He blinked at her. "How do I tell who the ringleaders are?" "They'll be the ones you're pointing at.

If there were rules it would not be magic.

Helping people was always a mistake... Trust was a word for fools. It was a word people used when they meant to betray you.

we must sometimes have a little chaos if a better order is to emerge. There can be no progress without pain, no creation without destruction.

You have to realistic about these things." ? Joe Abercrombie

Jezal had often observed that the ever so slightly stupid will act more stupidly in clever company.

But a man lost in the desert, as the Gurkish say, must take such water as he is offered.

Bah. What does it matter now? There are no certainties let in the world. That was the age of great men, doing what was right." He frowned down at the broken rubble choking the floor of the colossal room. "This is the age of little men, doing what they must. Little men, with little dreams, walking in giant footsteps.

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.

?oveku koji umire od gladi lep je hleb. Besku?niku je lep krov. Pijanici je lepo vino. Samo oni kojima ništa ne nedostaje trebaju lepotu tražiti u komadu kamena. Cosca

He was not sure what he had been expecting. Outstanding beauty, or stunning grace, or something that struck him instantly to the heart. But Ankran's family were an ordinary-looking pair. Most people are, of course, to those that don't know them.

Laž se može pretvoriti u istinu ako se izvikuje dovoljo ?esto.

But being a bastard was crime and punishment both.

Probably been sure he'd got the right god, the right king, the right cause. Everyone finds a way to make their side the right one, after all.

Lunatics!' snapped Hoff. 'This woman Judge.' Shudders of distaste about the table. At the notion of such a thing as a woman, or at the notion of this particular one, it was hard to say.

First it is done to us, then we do it to others, then we order it done. Such is the way of things.

Siempre puede intentar hacerlo mejor la próxima vez. En eso consiste la vida.

Um homem que não quer opiniões deveria manter a boca fechada.

Patience is as fearsome a weapon as rage. More so, in fact, 'cause fewer men have it.

It was a place of wild abandon, wild hope, wild despair, everything at extremes and nothing in moderation, dreams trodden into the muck and new ones sucked from bottles to be vomited up and trodden down in turn. A place where the strange was commonplace and the ordinary bizarre, and death might be along tomorrow so you'd best have all your fun today.

People are far more stupid than that.

So this is what luck looks like, is it? I've often wondered.

The Young Lion. What kind o' name is that?' 'Ridiculous.' Clover held up his hands and fluttered the fingers. 'The Great Wolf! Now that's a name.