Top 68 Best Joe Abercrombie Quotes
#1. Death waits for us all. Nothing's forever. Life's about making the best of what you find along the way. A man who's not content with what he's got, well, more than likely he won't be content with what he hasn't.
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#3. Where d'you get the knife?" He wished he had one.
"He gave it to me." There was a crumpled shape in the shadows by the wall, the matting all around soaked with dark blood. "This way.
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#4. But it is easy to speak of the past, impossible to go there. I am powerful in ways you can only dream, yet I am still a prisoner of what I have done. I can never escape the cell I have made for myself. Things are what they are.
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#6. Better to have steel to hand and find no trouble than find yourself in trouble with no steel to hand.
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#7. An open mind is like to an open wound,' growled Glokta. 'Vulnerable to poison.
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#8. You are a gentleman, sir,' muttered Cosca. 'I am a murderer.' 'I see no reason why a man cannot be both . . .
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#9. Always more enemies, and fewer friends. Blood gets you nothing but more blood.
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#10. All you can do is take each day as it comes. Try and do the best you can with what you're given. You won't always do the right thing, but you can try. And you can try to do the right thing next time. That, and stay alive.
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#11. Some men are made for doing violence. Some are meant for planning it. Then there are a special few whose talent is for taking the credit.
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#12. Some men you stick to right off. But it's those that take time to stick that stick longest.
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#13. Mason had just pulled his own knife out, a monster of a thing you could've called a sword without much fear of correction.
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#14. Strange, that however tough one's skin becomes in later life, the wounds of youth never close. Shenkt
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#15. 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.
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#16. Knives,' muttered Calder, 'and threats, and bribes, and war?'
Bayaz' eyes shone with the lamplight. 'Yes?'
'What kind of a fucking wizard are you?'
'The kind you obey.
Joe Abercrombie
#17. The elves knew the true names of these rivers,' said Skifr, who'd made a kind of bed among the cargo to drape herself on. 'We call them Divine and Denied because those are as close as our clumsy human tongues can come.
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#18. Unhappy times are the best for levity. You don't light candles in the middle of the day, do you?
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#19. There was nothing to be gained by losing his temper. There was never anything to be gained by that.
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#20. The birth of spring is perhaps not the best time to cross a mountain range,' observed Longfoot under his breath. Bayaz looked sharply sideways. 'Some would say the best time to cross an obstacle is when one finds oneself on the wrong side of it! Or do you suggest we wait for summer?
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#21. I'm trying to put things in the best light, but a turd's a turd, whatever light it's in!
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#23. What a place. Glokta stifled a smile. It reminds me of myself, in a way. We both were magnificent once, and we both have our best days far behind us.
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#24. I find hope is best abandoned early,' muttered Temple.
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#25. Crowds rarely cheer too loudly for the defeated, no matter how hard they fought, how great their sacrifices, how long the odds. Maidens might wet themselves over cheap and worthless victories, but they don't so much as blush for 'I did my best
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#26. When the best you can get from your wife's father is that he won't help to kill you, it doesn't take a clever man to see you're in shit to your chin.
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#27. Magnificent,' muttered Glokta, stretching out his aching back and squinting up, the pure white stone almost painful to look at in the afternoon glare. 'Seeing this, one could almost believe in God.' If one didn't know better.
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#28. Pain is the best schoolmaster, as you will soon discover.
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#29. The world is full of monsters, after all. Perhaps the best one can hope for is to have the most terrible on your side.
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#30. If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.
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#31. You don't pick your family, you take what you're given and you make the best of it.
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#32. You carry on. That's what he'd always done. That's the task that comes with surviving, whether you deserve to live or not. You remember the dead as best you can. You say some words for them. Then you carry on, and you hope for better.
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#33. Dimbik had once been told that the best soldiers are rarely courageous. That was when he had been sure it was the career for him. He started to slide one hand towards his sword, far from sure what he would do with it once it reached the hilt.
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#34. Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.
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#35. He would have liked to weigh his choices, but for that you need more than one.
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#36. You are lucky, Thorn. You are very lucky."
"Doubtless. Not every girl gets to be stabbed through the face."
"And by a duke of royal blood too!
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#37. It always amazes me, how swiftly problems can be solved, once you start cutting things off people.
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#38. Somewhere in the shadows a clock vomited up a few sluggish chimes.
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#39. Friends are people one pretends to like in order to make life bearable.
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#40. Strange, how quickly a king could become an animal. Or half a king half an animal. Perhaps even those we raise highest never get that far above the mud.
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#41. -'Would it help if I said I was very drunk?'
Brachio shook his head. - 'We all were'
-'Shitty childhood?'
-'Mummy used to leave me in a cupboard.'
-'Shitty adulthood?'
-'Whose isn't?
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#42. Treat a man like a dog and sooner or later he'll bite you,
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#43. When life is a cell, there is nothing more liberating than captivity.
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#44. It's what you give out that makes a man, not what you get back.
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#46. It is easy to speak of the past, impossible to go there.
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#47. She shrugged. "I fell. I'm a clumsy fool." "I know how you feel. I'm such a fool I knocked half my teeth out and hacked my leg to useless pulp. Look at me now, a cripple. It's amazing where a little foolishness can take you, if it goes unchecked.
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#49. The ground must be a general's best friend, or it becomes his worst enemy.
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#50. A few words can be more effective than a lot of blades, even in such times as these.
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#51. The trouble with running is wherever you run to, there you are.
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#52. Those with bad luck should at least attempt to balance it with good sense.
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#53. An open mind is like to an open wound. Vulnerable to poison. Liable to fester. Apt to give its owner only pain.
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#54. You can weep over each other's hidden nobility when we're safe!
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#55. A man with a missing eye after a man with a missing finger. There's a song in there somewhere, I reckon.
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#56. I never saw men act with such ignorance, violence and self-serving malice as when energised by a just cause.
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#57. Suffering is what gives a man strength, my boy, just as the steel most hammered turns out the hardest.
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#58. That's the trouble with running. Wherever you run to, that's where you are.
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#59. Patience is as fearsome a weapon as rage. More so, in fact, 'cause fewer men have it.
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#60. I'm a fucking coward."
"Maybe." Craw jerked his thumb over his shoulder at Whirrun's corpse. "There's a hero. Tell me who's better off.
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#61. He had learned long ago that life became much easier if you ignored what was not right before you.
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#62. The universal law is that the most frustrating thing will always happen, no matter how unlikely.
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#63. What better foundation for an alliance than mutual hatred and suspicion?
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#64. It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough.
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#66. Give Yarvi the knife since he has just one hand to hold it. One hand, perhaps, but the blood of kings in his veins!"
"It's keeping it there that worries me," said Yarvi under his breath.
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#67. When he'd made it thirty strides or so Logen turned around and looked back. The pot was sitting forlorn by the lake, already filling up with rainwater. They'd been through a lot together, him and that pot. "Fare you well, old friend." The pot did not reply.
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#68. There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.
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