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“The wise wait for their moment, but never let it pass.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King

“The wise speaker first learns when to stay silent”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King

“When you're in hell, only a devil can point the way out.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King

“The food of fear is ignorance, Mother Gundring used to say. The death of fear is knowledge. When you study a race of men you find they are just men like any others.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King

“Yarvi: 'If we had known the hardship of it, we might have chosen another.'
Shidwala: 'So it is with many choices.'
Yarvi: 'All we can do now is see it through.'
Shidwala: 'So it is with many choices.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King

“If you can’t find anything to complain about you aren’t looking hard enough.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King

“They say the seed you scatter will be the seed you harvest,”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King

“...the more you learn the more you understand the size of your own ignorance.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half the World

“Pain is the best schoolmaster, as you will soon discover.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half the World

“—Ningún camino digno de recorrer es fácil —repuso el padre Yarvi—. Cada uno de vosotros tiene puntos fuertes de los que el otro carece, puntos débiles que el otro compensa. Es algo hermoso, y muy excepcional, encontrar a alguien que… —Miró con gravedad las ramas que se movían sobre ellos, como si pensara en algo muy distante y doloroso—. Que te complete.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half the World

“never worry about what has been done, only about what will be.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King

“Always remember: strong men are many, wise men are few.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King

“The faster you run from the past, the faster it catches you. All you can do is turn to face it. Embrace it. Try and meet the future wiser for it.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a War

“Now he’d started crying he couldn’t seem to stop. No more than you can rebuild a burst dam when the flood’s still surging through. That’s the problem with making yourself hard. Once you crack, there’s no putting yourself back together.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a War

“You can only conquer your fears by facing them. Hide from them, and they conquer you.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a War