Joe Abercrombie Quotes - Page 2

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• Sometimes it doesn't matter too much what choice you make, as long as you make it quick and stick to it.

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  Long, Choices, Matter

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• Love is a fine cushion to rest upon, but only hate can make you a better person.

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  Hate, Love Is, Better Person

  Joe Abercrombie (2009). “Best Served Cold: A First Law Novel”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough.

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  Hate, Men, Long

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• I've made peace with myself.
  Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win.
  Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting.

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  War, Fighting, Winning

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• Chose? If you believe that I chose any part of the pitiful shadow of a life you see before you, you are very much mistaken. I chose glory and success. The box did not contain what was written on the lid.

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  Believe, Shadow, Glory

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• 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.

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  Stupidity, Luck, Selfishness

  Joe Abercrombie (2009). “Before They Are Hanged: The First Law: Book Two”, p.361, Hachette UK

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• 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?

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  Men, Touching, Stories

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• The wise wait for their moment, but never let it pass.

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  Wise, Waiting, Moments

  Joe Abercrombie (2016). “The Shattered Sea Series 3-Book Bundle: Half a King, Half the World, Half a War”, p.96, Del Rey

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• 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.

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  Military, Men, Mirrors

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• 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.

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  Son, Waiting, Advice

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• More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

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  Luck, Bad Luck, Plans

  Joe Abercrombie (2009). “Before They Are Hanged: The First Law: Book Two”, p.361, Hachette UK

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• You don’t pick your family, you take what you’re given and you make the best of it.

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  Given, Make The Best Of It, Our Family

  Joe Abercrombie (2009). “Before They Are Hanged: The First Law: Book Two”, p.207, Hachette UK

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• Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.

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  Names, Mud, Soil

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• 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.

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  Men, Long, Long Time

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• People love to see death. It reminds them that however mean, however low, however horrible their lives become… at least they have one.

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  Mean, People, Lows

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• Only it’s just the same. In fact, do you know, because of all that pressure, and worry, and fear, it’s worse. There aren’t many men who think clearest when the stakes are highest. So people are even stupider in a war than the rest of the time. Thinking about how they’ll dodge the blame, or grab the glory, or save their skins, rather than about what will actually work There’s no job that forgives stupidity more than soldiering. No job that encourages it more.

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  Jobs, War, Men

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• 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 solve one sordid problem at a time? Then we look up and find... this.

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  Choices, Looks, Path

  Joe Abercrombie (2009). “Last Argument Of Kings: The First Law: Book Three”, p.93, Hachette UK

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• There are few men with more blood on their hands than me. None, that I know of. The Bloody-Nine they call me, my enemies, and there’s a lot of ’em. Always more enemies, and fewer friends. Blood gets you nothing but more blood. It follows me now, always, like my shadow, and like my shadow I can never be free of it. I should never be free of it. I’ve earned it. I’ve deserved it. I’ve sought it out. Such is my punishment.

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  Men, Blood, Hands

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• Those with the least always lose the most in war.

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  War, Loses

  Joe Abercrombie (2009). “Before They Are Hanged: The First Law: Book Two”, p.242, Hachette UK

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• All your life spent getting ready for the next thing. I climbed a lot of hills now. I crossed a lot of rivers. Crossed the sea even, left everything I knew and came to Styria. But there I was, waiting for me at the docks when I got off the boat, same man, same life. Next valley ain't no different from this one. No better anyway. Reckon I've learned ... just to stick in the place I'm at. Just to be the man I am.

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  Men, Sea, Rivers

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• I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own tastes and opinions shift and the more you start to see things you could have written differently in the detail, or done differently on the broader scale of plot and character.

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  Book, Character, Thinking

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• History is littered with dead good men

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  Men, Good Man

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• 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.

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  Fear, Men, Air

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• Fools boast of what they will do. Heroes do it.

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  Hero, Fool, Boast

  Joe Abercrombie (2016). “The Shattered Sea Series 3-Book Bundle: Half a King, Half the World, Half a War”, p.365, Del Rey

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• But you can't truly hate a man without loving him first, and there's always a trace of that love left over.

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  Hate, Men, Firsts

  Joe Abercrombie (2009). “Last Argument Of Kings: The First Law: Book Three”, p.309, Hachette UK

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