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Joe Abercrombie QUOTES

1 " If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person? "

― Joe Abercrombie , Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)

2 " The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Heroes (First Law World, #5)

3 " Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes. "

― Joe Abercrombie , Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)

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

― Joe Abercrombie , Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)

5 " 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. "

― Joe Abercrombie , Half the World (Shattered Sea, #2)

6 " He is dead and I, the self serving coward that I am, still live. Life is not fair. There is no pattern. People die at random. Something everyone knows, but no one truly believes. They think that when it comes to them there will be a lesson, a meaning, a story worth telling. That death will come to them as a dread scholar, a fell knight, a terrible emperor.
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. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Heroes (First Law World, #5)

7 " 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. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Heroes (First Law World, #5)

8 " Life's a queue of small irritations with the Last Door at the end. "

― Joe Abercrombie , Half a War (Shattered Sea, #3)

9 " I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them. "

― Joe Abercrombie , Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)

10 " Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Heroes (First Law World, #5)

Joe Abercrombie QUOTES

11 " Bang! The end of his little finger, now, and three more pieces of the rest. His middle finger was down to the knuckle, almost. Severard stared, his eyes with with horror, his breath coming short, fast gasps. Shock, amazement, stunned terror. Glokta leaned down to his ear. 'I hope you weren't planning to take up the violin, Severard. You'll be lucky if you can play a fucking gong by the time we're done here. "

― Joe Abercrombie , Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)

12 " One act presses upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then we look up and find... this. "

― Joe Abercrombie , Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)

13 " Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a foot into empty air. The instinct of self-preservation. It can destroy a man's efficiency. "

― Joe Abercrombie , Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)

14 " 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 never gotten anywhere. "

― Joe Abercrombie

15 " Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose. "

― Joe Abercrombie , Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)

16 " Those with the least always lose the most in war. "

― Joe Abercrombie , Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)

17 " Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Heroes (First Law World, #5)

18 " So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You're a hero. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Heroes (First Law World, #5)

19 " He looked around at that one room, and the few things in it. He'd always thought retiring would be going back to his life after some nightmare pause. Some stretch of exile in the land of the dead. Now it came to him that all his life worth living had happened while he was holding a sword.
Standing alongside his dozen. Laughing with Whirrun, and Brack, and Wonderful. Clasping hands with his crew before the fight, knowing he'd die for them and they for him. The trust, the brotherhood, the love, the knit closer than family. Standing by Threetrees on the walls of Uffrith, roaring their defiance at Bethod's great army. The day he charged at the Cunmur. And at Dunbrec. And in the High Places, even though they lost. The day he earned his name. Even the day he got his brothers killed. Even when he'd stood at the top of the Heroes as the rain came down, watching the Union come, knowing every dragged out moment might be the last.
Like Whirrun said - you can't live more than that. Certainly not by fixing a chair. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Heroes (First Law World, #5)

20 " Remember, though, that you are the king's observer, not the king's champion. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Heroes (First Law World, #5)