Joe Abercrombie

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.

Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it. 

Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.

Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.

You were a hero round these parts. That's what they call you when you kill so many people the word murderer falls short

Honour, eh? What the hell is that anyway? Every man thinks it's something different. You can't drink it. You can't fuck it. The more of it you have the less good it does you, and if you've got none at all you don't miss it.

If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person

Sometimes it doesn't matter too much what choice you make, as long as you make it quick and stick to it.