Quotes from Joe Abercrombie

It can be pleasant to have someone weak leaning on you. It can make you feel strong. But there comes a point when they become a dead weight to carry.

beware most of clever men who look like fools

Nada es para siempre. La vida consiste en aprovechar bien lo que te encuentras en el camino. Si un hombre no está satisfecho con lo que tiene… bueno, muy posiblemente tampoco se quedará satisfecho con lo que no tiene. - Brand

Besides, a man who's moved by grovelling will never get enough grovelling for his taste.

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever. Master

It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not. "Something

When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact.

I am Odem`s nephew. Uthirk´ s son." (Yarvi) "Oh, dear gods", he heards Samuel whistling, " We are dead

Having fucked the groom is really no excuse for missing a wedding, you know.

It is when they truly hate you, after all, that you know you have won. So she met the seething dislike with effortless superiority, paraded past with her shoulders back and chin high. If she was to be cast as the villain, so be it. They were always the most interesting characters anyway.

Trouble with the good fight, I find… once

Smile, I said. You're not trying to sell him your teeth.

Friends? In my experience, a friend is merely an acquaintance who has yet to betray you.

In times of peace, the warlike man attacks himself.' Friedrich Nietzsche

Jezal favoured him with a terse nod and turned away to look up the avenue. He could think of no possible reason why an officer would want to be familiar with the common soldiers. Furthermore, he was scarred and ugly. Jezal had no use whatever for ugly people.

Round and round in circles we go, clutching at successes that we never grasp, endlessly tripping over the same old failures. Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.

Si te toca levantar una carga, más te vale levantarla que echarte a llorar

High ideals and reality are like oil and water," muttered Vick. "They don't mix well.

Fear was born of arrogance. Of a belief that everything was not the will of God, and could be changed.

Why do big mouths and little brains so often go together?

It was a look that gave her a tingle, all right, but not in a good way. In that look she saw her silly bloody hopes as twisted and broken as she'd left that Lowlander's arm, and it was no one's fault but her own. She shouldn't have let herself hope, but hopes are like weeds: however often you root them out they keep on springing up.

A king was just a kind of bin for all the blame to go in.

As commander of a battalion his trade had been to fight the enemy with steel. As a staff officer, it seemed, his role was to fight his own side with paper, more secretary than soldier. He felt like a man trying to push a huge stone up a hill. Straining and straining, getting nowhere, but unable to stop pushing in case the rock should fall and crush him. Meanwhile, arrogant bastards who were in just the same danger lazed on the slopes beside him saying, "Well, it's not my rock.

Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments." - Sand dan Glokta