01c. 1974 ADOne day you're something, so promising and full o' dares, so big the world's too small a place to hold you. Then, 'fore you know it, you're old, and you realise all them things you had in mind you'll never get to. All them doors you felt too big to fit through have already shut. Only one left open and it leads to nothing but nothing.Joe Abercrombie / quote ↗
02c. 1974 ADSometimes, when someone lives in danger for too long, the only time they feel alive is when death's breathing on their shoulder.Joe Abercrombie / quote ↗
03c. 1974 ADVengeance 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 rule to have it, but when we clutch it, there is nothing there. Only grief.Joe Abercrombie / quote ↗
04c. 1974 ADEmpathy? What’s that?” Glokta winced as he rubbed at his aching leg. “It’s a sad fact, but pain only makes you sorry for yourself.Joe Abercrombie / quote ↗
06c. 1974 ADMercy and cowardice are the same," she snapped out. "But you want their land, not their lives, no? Dead men can't obey.Joe Abercrombie / quote ↗
07c. 1974 ADYou 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 / quote ↗
08c. 1974 ADTo have a good enemy, choose a friend: he knows where to strike.Joe Abercrombie / quote ↗
10c. 1974 ADSome men you stick to right off. But it's those that take time to stick that stick longest.Joe Abercrombie / quote ↗
11c. 1974 ADStrange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.Joe Abercrombie / quote ↗
12c. 1974 ADThe 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.Joe Abercrombie / quote ↗
13c. 1974 ADWhat’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? All blood and bone and dreams?Joe Abercrombie / quote ↗
14c. 1974 ADThe 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 towards the fortress of Fontezarmo - a cluster of sharp towers, ash-black again the wounded heavens. The sunrise was red, black and gold.The colours of their profession.Joe Abercrombie / quote ↗
15c. 1974 ADThere 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 / quote ↗
17c. 1974 ADI'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.Joe Abercrombie / quote ↗
18c. 1974 ADGive Bethod a kick from me, once you have him under your boot.""That I will, unless he gets me under his.""Never easy, kicking upwards.Joe Abercrombie / quote ↗
20c. 1974 ADYou look especially beautiful this morning, Monza."That brought a smile to the corner of her mouth. The corner he couldn't see. "Well. Facts are facts.Joe Abercrombie / quote ↗
22c. 1974 ADHe blamed every fucker available excepting, of course, the one who was actually to blame, the one sitting in his saddle and getting colder, hungrier, and more lost with every unpleasant moment. ‘Shit!’ he roared at nothing.Joe Abercrombie / quote ↗
