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Quotes About Friendship

I bet you can do better." Luthar was grinning across at Logen. "I got bitten by a mean sheep once, but it didn't leave much of a mark.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Could he truly pretend that he wanted to be her friend? A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time, and had never got anywhere.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I saw two Northmen. One was reading a book.' 'Really? A book?' Friendly shrugged. 'There are readers everywhere.
~ Joe Abercrombie
He remembered other times and other campfires, when he had not been alone.
~ Joe Abercrombie
In my experience, a friend is merely an acquaintance who has yet to betray you.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Some men laugh easily. It makes them winning dinner companions.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Jezal had often observed that the ever so slightly stupid will act more stupidly in clever company. Having lost the high ground already they scramble eagerly for the position of likeable idiot, stay out of arguments they will only lose, and can hence be everyone's friend.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Laughing with a man was a good step forward. First comes the laughter, then the respect, then the trust.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I know you're a great fencer, but I've been told your wit is even sharper than your sword. So much so in fact, that you only use your sword upon your friends, as your wit is far too deadly.
~ Joe Abercrombie
You can always make enemies of your friends,' said Sumael. 'Making friends of your enemies is harder labor.
~ Joe Abercrombie
This is the North," muttered Clover. "Who hasn't killed a friend or two?
~ Joe Abercrombie
but in the end Logen had earned their trust, and their respect, and their friendship even. Small gestures and a lot of time, that was how he'd done it. "Patience is the chief of virtues," his father used to say, and "you won't cross the mountains in a day." Time might be against them, but there was nothing to be gained by rushing. You have to be realistic about these things.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Observa con atención, habla en tono comedido, sonríe con dulzura, rodéate de amigos, ruega con fervor al Padre Paz que haya calma y ten las espadas a mano. —Órdenes
~ Joe Abercrombie
In my experience, a friend is merely an acquaintance who has yet to betray you. Is that what you are, Harker?
~ Joe Abercrombie
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
~ Joe Abercrombie
To fight my enemies I need friends behind me, and I'm clean out of friends. You have to be realistic. It's been a while since my ambitions went beyond getting through each day alive.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Leo saw now that his father had been wrong. It's after the battle. That's when a man finds out who he truly is. He was no hero. He never had been. He was a fool. A great bloated tower of vanity. It had got his friends, his allies and hundreds who'd followed him killed. Now it would get him killed, too.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Friends? In my experience, a friend is merely an acquaintance who has yet to betray you.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Right to business is it, and no time to be friendly?' Crummock stretched his neck to the side, his arms over his head, and lifted one foot and shook it around. 'I came here because I woke in the night, and I walked out into the darkness, and the moon whispered to me. In the forest, d'you see? In the trees, and in the voices of the owls in the trees, and d'you know what the moon said?' 'That you're mad as fuck?' growled Dow.
~ Joe Abercrombie
When God means to punish a man, the Kantic scriptures say, he sends him stupid friends, and clever enemies.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Everyone says you're the most untrustworthy bitch in the whole North.' 'No one should know better than you what the things everyone says are worth. Truth is, I only care about keeping my word to folk I like. I seem untrustworthy because there are only seven of those outside the hills.' She made a fist of her tattooed hand, trembling tight. 'To those seven, I am a rock.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Small gestures and time. Rarely failed to win folk over.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Only friends get left behind. Enemies are always at your heels. The
~ Joe Abercrombie
Glen Cook, Scott Lynch, and Steven Erikson, then
~ Joe Abercrombie