“ When was it exactly that I became... this? By small degrees, I suppose. One act presses hard upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we mus… Joe Abercrombie
“ A man can forgive all manner of faults in beautiful women that in ugly men he find entirely beyond sufferance Joe Abercrombie
“ The lowly have small ambitions, and are satisfied with small indulgences. They need not get fair treatment. They need only think that they do... Joe Abercrombie
“ Memories sharp enough to cut himself on - the smells, the sounds, the feel of the air on his skin, the desperate hope and mad anger. Joe Abercrombie
“ Monza never had understood why getting out a tit or two made for a better painting. But painters seemed to think it did, so tits is what you got. Joe Abercrombie
“ Men are brittle, I reckon. They don't bend into new shapes. They get broken into them. Crushed into them. Joe Abercrombie
“ The memories of our glories fade, and rot away into half-arsed anecdotes, thin and unconvincing as some other bastard's lies. The failures, the disappointments, the regrets, they stay raw as the momen… Joe Abercrombie
“ A set of huge marble busts stared smugly down from on high: great merchants and financiers of Styrian history, by the look of them. Criminals made heroes by colossal success. Joe Abercrombie
“ Shivers heaved out a sigh. “Just trying to make tomorrow that bit better than today is all. I’m one of those … you’ve got a word for it, don’t you?”“Idiots?”He looked sideways at her. “It was a differ… Joe Abercrombie
“ One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great things. Joe Abercrombie
“ Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit. Joe Abercrombie
“ Strange, isn't it,' mused Glokta as he watched him struggle for air. 'Big men, small men, thin men, fat men, clever men, stupid men, they all respond the same to a fist in the guts. One minute you thi… Joe Abercrombie
“ Whirrun ignored ‘em. ‘Then, when I’ve got two cut,’ and he dropped a pale slab of cheese on one slice then slapped the other on top like he was catching a fly, ‘I trap the cheese between then, and the… Joe Abercrombie
“ 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… Joe Abercrombie
“ 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
