“Take everything as a compliment, you can never be insulted.”
― Joe Abercrombie, quote from Half the World
“Those with bad luck should at least attempt to balance it with good sense.”
― Joe Abercrombie, quote from Half the World
“Fools boast of what they will do. Heroes do it.”
― Joe Abercrombie, quote from Half the World
“There's no disappointment like getting what you've always wanted...”
― Joe Abercrombie, quote from Half the World
“I always thought of being together as the end of the work. Turns out it's where the work starts.”
― Joe Abercrombie, quote from Half the World
“The trouble with being able to lift heavy things is that when heavy things need lifting folk step out of the way and smile at you.”
― Joe Abercrombie, quote from Half the World
“Where do we find allies?"
Father Yarvi smiled. "Among our enemies, where else?”
― Joe Abercrombie, quote from Half the World
“You want a thing when you can't have it. When you get it you suddenly sprout doubts. Then when you think you might lose it you find you need it worse than ever.”
― Joe Abercrombie, quote from Half the World
“...the more you learn the more you understand the size of your own ignorance.”
― Joe Abercrombie, quote from Half the World
“Pain is the best schoolmaster, as you will soon discover.”
― Joe Abercrombie, quote from Half the World
“Why the mad hair, girl?"
"Because damn you," growled Thorn, "that's why.”
― Joe Abercrombie, quote from Half the World
“If you could kill a man by frowning at his back, the Breaker of Swords would have fallen bloody through the Last Door that day, but a frown is no blade, and Thorn's hatred cut no one but her.”
― Joe Abercrombie, quote from Half the World
“Facing an enemy on the battlefield took courage, but you had your friends beside you. Standing alone against your friends, that was a different kind of courage.”
― Joe Abercrombie, quote from Half the World
“Grom-gil-Gorm," she said softly as she rode between Laithlin and Yarvi. "Breaker of Swords." Mother Isriun's horse shied back out of her way. "Maker of Orphans." Thorn reined in beside him, his frowning face lit red by the blazing light of her elf-bangle, and she leaned from her saddle to whisper.
"Your death comes.”
― Joe Abercrombie, quote from Half the World
“There aren’t many good things don’t have a splinter of selfishness in them somewhere, after all.”
― Joe Abercrombie, quote from Half the World
“You keep an oath not for the oath but for yourself”
― Joe Abercrombie, quote from Half the World
“Heresy and progress often look much alike.”
― Joe Abercrombie, quote from Half the World
“You are lucky, Thorn. You are very lucky."
"Doubtless. Not every girl gets to be stabbed through the face."
"And by a duke of royal blood too!”
― Joe Abercrombie, quote from Half the World
“There is a time for wondering what a man wants,” said Fror, no fear at all in his. “And there is a time for splitting his head. This is that second time.”
― Joe Abercrombie, quote from Half the World
“It was either bluster or look weak and Thorn reckoned that no choice at all, so she puffed herself up and snapped out, "How did you get the scar?"
"How did you get the scar?"
Thorn frowned. "What scar?"
"That's the face the gods gave you?" And with the faintest of smiles the Vansterman went back to coiling rope.”
― Joe Abercrombie, quote from Half the World
“Killing a man by accident had made her a villain. Killing another on purpose had made her a hero. But all she could do was frown at the body as they dragged it out, and feel there was something very odd in all this.”
― Joe Abercrombie, quote from Half the World
“A man who gives all his thought to doing good, but no thought to the consequences …” Father Yarvi lifted his withered hand and pressed its one crooked finger into Brand’s chest. “That is a dangerous man.”
― Joe Abercrombie, quote from Half the World
“Time hasn't been kind."
"Time never is. A fighter keeps fighting even so. Thought you were a fighter?”
― Joe Abercrombie, quote from Half the World
“The gods hate those who plan badly, and help those with good friends, good swords, and good sense.”
― Joe Abercrombie, quote from Half the World
“Enemies are the price of success.”
― Joe Abercrombie, quote from Half the World
“The gods hate those who plan badly, and help those with good friends, good swords, and good sense. Worry less about what the gods might do and more about what you can, that’s my advice.”
― Joe Abercrombie, quote from Half the World
“You keep an oath not for the oath but for yourself.”
― Joe Abercrombie, quote from Half the World
“Vengeance only walks a circle. From blood, back to blood. Death waits for us all. You can follow your path to her bent under a burden of rage. I did, for many years. You can let it poison you.” He took a long breath, and let it sigh away. “Or you can let it go.”
― Joe Abercrombie, quote from Half the World
Joe Abercrombie
Born place: in Lancaster, England, The United Kingdom
Born date December 31, 1974
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“Hacemos todo cuanto podemos por la persona a la que amamos. Y cuando crees que ya no puedes dar nada más de ti misma, vas y haces algo más, porque negarte a ello te mataría.”
― Anna Carey, quote from Once
“Love is infinite. There is no beginning and no end. There's no starting point and no finishing line. Love just is. Love is born, grows, matures, and sometimes it dies. But the memory will remain with you for the rest of your breathing hours. You will fall in love, you will fall out of love. But you will love again. You always do.”
― Mia Asher, quote from Arsen: A Broken Love Story
“They both sat in silence for the rest of the journey, as if conscious of having let each other down.”
― Michel Faber, quote from Under the Skin
“Don’t think about that. Don’t think about him.”
― Ripley Patton, quote from Ghost Hand
“What happened between us both happened and didn't happen, it's the same with everything, why do or not do something, why say "yes" or "no," why worry yourself with a "perhaps" or a "maybe," why speak, why remain silent, why refuse, why know anything if nothing of what happens happens, because nothing happens without interruption, nothing lasts or endures or is ceaselessly remembered, what takes place is identical to what doesn't take place, what we dismiss or allow to slip by us is identical to what we accept and seize, what we experience identical to what we never try; we pour all our intelligence and out feelings and our enthusiasm into the task of discriminating between things that will all be made equal, if they haven't already been, and that's why we're so full of regrets and lost opportunities, of confirmations and reaffirmations and opportunities grasped, when the truth is that nothing is affirmed and everything is constantly in the process of being lost. Or perhaps there never was anything.”
― Javier Marías, quote from A Heart So White
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