“ This is stupid.""Look. You think how stupid people are most of the time. Old men drink. Women at a village fair. Boys throwing stones at birds. Life. The foolishness and the vanity, the selfishness an… Joe Abercrombie
“ 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. Joe Abercrombie
“ Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter. Joe Abercrombie
“ Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a foot into empty air. The instinct of self-preservation. It can destroy a man's efficiency. Joe Abercrombie
“ One act presses upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but sol… Joe Abercrombie
“ Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud. Joe Abercrombie
“ You ever have the feeling you were in the wrong place? That if you could just get over the next hill, cross the next river, look down into the next valley, it'd all...fit. Be right.""All my life, more… Joe Abercrombie
“ Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from behind, and snatches us away while we shit. Joe Abercrombie
“ He is dead and I, the self serving coward that I am, still live. Life is not fair. There is no pattern. People die at random. Something everyone knows, but no one truly believes. They think that when… Joe Abercrombie
“ It was a look that gave her a tingle, all right, but not in a good way. In that look she saw her silly bloody hopes as twisted and broken as she’d left that Lowlander’s arm, and it was no one’s fault… Joe Abercrombie
“ Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever. Joe Abercrombie
“ 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. Joe Abercrombie
“ The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick. Joe Abercrombie
“ If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person? Joe Abercrombie
