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 AbercrombieIt's hard to stay calm when you're terrified, helpless, alone, at the mercy of men with no mercy at all.
Joe AbercrombieWhatโs the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same uniform as you? A crime. A murder. Worse than despicable. Are we not all men? All blood and bone and dreams?
Joe AbercrombieThings aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. 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. The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into the grave.
Joe Abercrombie