Quotes from Joe Abercrombie

A cock's not for pleasing yourself, boy, it's for pleasing others. Maybe that's where you're going wrong.

It wasn't easy. But if changing the world was easy, everyone would be at it.

In my experience, a friend is merely an acquaintance who has yet to betray you. Is that what you are, Harker?

The greatest responsibility of a commander was not to command, but to look like he knew how to.

Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from behind, and snatches us away while we shit. He

It's a sorry fact that the man who strikes first usually strikes last,

Self-pity was for children and half-wits.

Confiar, una palabra solo apta para idiotas

Padala je kiša. Sitna kiša od koje je cijeli svijet bio vlažan. Meka kao poljubac djevice, kažu, iako se Cucak jedva sje?ao kakav je to osje?aj. Kiša

Dignity wasn't much help to the living, it was none to the dead.

Is it coming for me? Several tons of rock, about to splatter my remains across the city? What a ludicrously random way to die. He felt his mouth twitch up in a faint smile.

You are very brave' said the first of the Magi, and his voice was almost painful on her ear 'Or very rash. To cavil with a man who has called up storms and snatched down lightning. Who scattered the mighty Thousand Words like chaff on the wind.' He leaned forwards, baring his teeth, and it was the most she could do to stop herself cringing, stumbling back, dropping to her knees. 'Why, you must know, that with a thought I could make ash of you.

Guilt is a luxury reserved for those still breathing and with no unbearable pain, cold or hunger demanding all their fickle attention. Long as guilt's your big problem, girl…" Rikke saw the faint gleam of Isern's teeth in the gathering darkness. "Things can't be that bad.

No reason to let the edge grow dull, simply because I have run out of enemies. New enemies will present themselves, before too long.

Van már terved? - Megöllek, és elbújok a holttestedben.

La palabra secuestro es muy fea. ¿Por qué no lo considera como una invitación difícil de resistir?

Vick frowned towards the bonfire, the ragged figures warming their hands, the Burners dragging people from the buildings, the Constables emptying out the cellar that had been a bank. "You want to paint this?" "Future generations might never believe that it happened." She blew some yellow hair out of her face with a smoky breath and went back to sketching, charcoal hissing on paper. "Then it might happen again.

El oro y la plata lo son todo para todos. Algunos tenemos suficiente para poder fingir que no.

He's every bit like his fireplace, the big dolt. Looks impressive, but there's not much going on underneath.

Live long enough, you see everything ruined.

Besides, it somehow helped to imagine that the orders came from somewhere else, somewhere unknowable and irresistible. It was nice to have an attic in which to stack the blame. Friendly

A merész önfeláldozással az a gond, hogy merészségre van hozzá szükség és önfeláldozásra.

There are few blessings without a curse hidden inside, nor curses without a whiff of blessing." Isern carved a little piece of chagga from a dried-out chunk. "Like most things, it's a matter of how you look at it." "Very profound." "As always." "Maybe someone whose head hurt less would enjoy your wisdom more.

He glanced at the mayhem beyond the walls. "The time has come for someone to nobly sacrifice themselves. In the absence of anyone better qualified… it will have to be me.