Joe Abercrombie Quotes

“-Would it help if I said I was very drunk?
Brachio shook his head.
- We all were.
-Shitty childhood?
-Mummy used to leave me in a cupboard.
-Shitty adulthood?
-Whose isn't?”
― Joe Abercrombie, Red Country

“Men are brittle, I reckon. They don't bend into new shapes. They get broken into them. Crushed into them.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold

“Monza never had understood why getting out a tit or two made for a better painting. But painters seemed to think it did, so tits is what you got.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold

“The memories of our glories fade, and rot away into half-arsed anecdotes, thin and unconvincing as some other bastard's lies. The failures, the disappointments, the regrets, they stay raw as the moments they happened.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold

“The one thing she hated worse than being fussed over was being ignored.”
― Joe Abercrombie

“Memories sharp enough to cut himself on - the smells, the sounds, the feel of the air on his skin, the desperate hope and mad anger.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold

“Savor the little moments, that’s my advice. They’re what life is. All the little things that happen while you’re waiting for something else.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes

“Cairm Ironhead was a very different prospect. His scar-crossed face was a fortress of frown you could’ve blunted an axe on, eyes like nails under a brow like an anvil, cropped hair and beard an uncompromising black.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes

“He had fallen in love there, with a women too rich, too old and far too beautiful for him and been made a whining fool of.The streets were lined with not only old pillars and thirsty palms, but with the bitter remnants of his childish shame, jealousy weeping injustice. Strange that however tough ones skin becomes in later life the wounds of youth never close. - Shenkt”
― Joe Abercombie