Abercrombie, Joe > Quotes

“Which side are we on, then?"
"That's one o'those questions you try not to answer till you have to." - The Wisdom of Crowds”
― Abercrombie, Joe

“If you have to tell someone you are furious, and then, furthermore, that you mean it, your fury has failed to achieve its desired effect.”
― Abercrombie, Joe

“У житті варто навчитись цінувати дрібниці — наприклад, сухе взуття. Тим паче, якщо дрібниці — це єдине, що у тебе залишилось, і в цьому разі не цінувати їх неможливо”
― Abercrombie, Joe

“У кожного свій шлях … і без страху не буває відваги.”
― Abercrombie, Joe

“Brand’s hopes for the wondrous voyage had so far proved a great deal more wondrous than the voyage itself, the crew less a family bound tight by a common goal than a sackful of snakes, spitting poison at each other as though their journey was a struggle that could have only one winner.”
― Abercrombie, Joe

“chewed raw every hour or two while still being expected to have a good dinner ready and do the wifely duties every bloody night, sore or not, tired or not?”
― Abercrombie, Joe

“Did it never occur to him that she might want to ride, and feel the fresh wind, and smile at the wide-open country, and rope cattle, and consider the route, and speak up in the meetings while he trudged beside the squealing wagon, and changed the shitty wrappings on their youngest, and shouted at the next three in line to stop shouting, and had his nipples chewed raw every hour or two while still being expected to have a good dinner ready and do the wifely duties every bloody night, sore or not, tired or not?

Abercrombie, Joe. Red Country (First Law Standalones Book 3) (pp. 145-146). Orbit. Kindle Edition.”
― Abercrombie, Joe