Alex Banner

“The thing about history is you don’t know what the right side is till long afterwards, and by then it hardly matters.” “That’s the sort o’ thing you hear from folk who know they’re on the wrong side.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Wisdom of Crowds

“She sat in silence as he limped out, teeth gritted. Click, tap, grunt. Click, tap, grunt. That mixture of cunning, ruthlessness, burning ambition and constant pain was far from unfamiliar.
She had heard it said that every woman ends up marrying her father. Until that moment, she had always imagined herself the exception.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Wisdom of Crowds

“I am made of memories.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“But he’s from England.’ Jakob of Thorn ushered him over the threshold. ‘They’re all devils there.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Devils