The First Law Quotes

“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

“You have to be realistic”
― Joe Abercrombie

“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

“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

“When the fighting is over you dig, if you're still alive. You dig graves for your dead comrades, A last mark of respect, however little you might have had for them. You dig as deep as you can bothered, you dump then in, you cover them up, they rot away and are forgotten. That's the way it's always been.”
― Joe Abercrombie