Quotes from Joe Abercrombie

Since his earliest remembrances, Morveer seemed always to have had an uncanny aptitude for saying the wrong thing. When he meant to contribute, he would find he was complaining. When he intended to be solicitous, he would discover he was insulting. When he sought earnestly to provide support, he would be construed as undermining. He wanted only to be valued, respected, included, and yet somehow every attempt at good fellowship only made matters worse.

Everything looks like a trap to you two.' 'Act that way,' said Clover. 'You'll never be surprised.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce." Karl Marx

People like to watch the pretty puppets, Superior. Even a glimpse of the puppeteer can be most upsetting for them. Why, they might even suddenly notice the strings around their own wrists.

Why should it hurt in my neck when I go down stairs? Does my neck take my weight? Does it?

Never thought o' myself as a man who fills sacks with heads." "No one sets off in that direction," said Clover, puffing out his cheeks one more time. "But before you know it, there you bloody are.

Supongo que el amor cae donde cae. La madre Owd levantó una ceja. —Por lo general se ve caer de lejos y da tiempo a apartarse. —Pues

I can't walk forever, Malacus, I can't fight forever. How much of this horrible shit should a man have to take? I need to sit down a minute. In a proper fucking chair! Is that too much to ask? Is it?

Small gestures and time. Rarely failed to win folk over.

and you have to have fear to have courage.

You can't understand! You're not...a man.' 'Had I been confused on that point, it was put beyond doubt when I pushed you out of my womb. Have you any notion how much you weighed as a baby? Spend two days shitting an anvil we'll talk again.

Where do we find allies?' Father Yarvi smiled. 'Among our enemies, where else?

Pick your enemies more carefully than your friends," Nothing was muttering at the flames. "They will be with you longer.

Better to do it than live with the fear of it.

Er war stets so ruhig und gelassen wie frisch gefallener Schnee

The more you kill, the better you get at it. And the better you get at killing, the less use you are for anything else.

So it always is with mercenaries. Easily hired, even more easily discharged and never missed once they are gone.' Friendly

Only friends get left behind. Enemies are always at your heels. The

A few words can be more effective than a lot of blades, even in such times as these.

Come at a man with a sword, he'll see you coming, and if a man you mean to kill you sees you coming then you're going about it all wrong.

His face was like a whipped back, criss-crossed with ragged scars. His

Trouble with the good fight, I find... once the fight starts, the good stops.

It can be a terrible curse for a man to get everything he ever dreamed of. If the shining prizes turn out somehow to be empty baubles, he is left without even his dreams for comfort. All the things that Jezal had thought he wanted—power, fame, the beautiful trappings of greatness—they were nothing but dust. All he wanted now was for things to be as they had been, before he got them. But there was no way back. Not ever.

I make no judgements on hearsay.