Joe Abercrombie Quotes

The man is a monster. The worst I have ever seen, in fact, since I last looked in the mirror. The truth? I am rotting too. I am buried alive, and already rotting. If I was not such a coward I would kill myself, but I am, and so I must content myself with killing others in the hope that one day, if I can only wade deep enough in blood, I will come out clean.

Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?

What’s 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?

It's hard to stay calm when you're terrified, helpless, alone, at the mercy of men with no mercy at all.

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.

Savor the little moments, son, that's my advice. They're what life is. All the little things that happen while you're waiting for something else.

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.

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