“ Hay que aprender las lecciones de la historia. Los errores del pasado deben cometerse una sola vez —hizo una breve pausa y luego añadió—. A menos que no haya otro remedio. Joe Abercrombie
“ Some men you stick to right off. But it's those that take time to stick that stick longest. Joe Abercrombie
“ You can always make enemies of your friends,' said Sumael. 'Making friends of your enemies is harder labor. Joe Abercrombie
“ 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
“ Mercy and cowardice are the same," she snapped out. "But you want their land, not their lives, no? Dead men can't obey. Joe Abercrombie
“ 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. Joe Abercrombie
“ The sunrise was the colour of bad blood. It leaked out of the east and stained the dark sky red, marked the scraps of the cloud with stolen gold. Underneath it the road twisted up the mountainside tow… Joe Abercrombie
“ 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? Al… Joe Abercrombie
“ You want to be merciful. To stand in the light. I understand it. I admire it. But, my queen...Only the victors can be merciful. Joe Abercrombie
“ Vengeance is a way of clinging to what we have lost. A wedge in the Last Door, and through the crack we can still glimpse the faces of the dead. We strain towards it with all our being, break every ru… Joe Abercrombie
“ Lorsen shook his head in amazement. 'You truly are disgusting.''I would be the last to disagree, but you fail to see that you are worse. No man capable of greater evil than the one who thinks himself… Joe Abercrombie
“ You stick a bunch of drunken murderers together, ain't long before some turn to thieving, then to lying, then to bad language, and pretty soon to sobriety, raising families and making an honest living… Joe Abercrombie