Peter Andersen > Peter Andersen's Quotes

“Nothing is ever fixed. From the moment it is born, from the moment it is built, everything is always dying, decaying, drifting into chaos.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble With Peace

“Better to do it than live with the fear of it.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble With Peace

“Sometimes,’ he murmured, ‘the only way to improve something is to destroy it, so it can be rebuilt better. Sometimes, to change the world, we must first burn it down.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble With Peace

“Help to these people was a coin tossed in a pool. It might make a few ripples, but they would quickly vanish as though they had never been.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble With Peace

“Prefer to eat the eggs I’ve got, my king, rather’n the ones still up in the tree.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble With Peace

“In hard times, it’s easy to become hard. But here was a man who always looked for the best in folk. Didn’t always find it, but never gave up looking. Wasted no time polishing his own name. Singing his own songs. Didn’t have to.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble With Peace

“She wished she had better words. Ones that somehow bound up all he’d been to her. All the things felt but never said. All the holes he’d leave behind. But how can you fit all that in a bit of breath? ‘By”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble With Peace

“My father always used to say, you want things right, you have to put ’em right yourself.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble With Peace

“And loyalty? A trick those with power played on those without to make them act against their own interests.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble With Peace

“He always told me that to change the world you must first burn it down.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble With Peace

“But she smells too good, d’you see? Not like a person. Like a cake. Like the best cake you ever tasted.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble With Peace

“When people are fixed on hatred they do not discriminate.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble With Peace

“A king was just a kind of bin for all the blame to go in.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble With Peace

“Strange, isn’t it? You keep having to check how disgusting it is. Then, one day, you check and you find you actually like it. Soon after, no other drink will quite scratch that itch. I’ve often felt that people are the same.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble With Peace

“The ones you like straight away rarely turn out to be your favourites.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble With Peace

“But a man shows his quality when circumstances are against him,”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble With Peace

“But being an arsehole is crime and punishment both.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble With Peace

“But these were desperate times. And in desperate times, one must sometimes call upon the services of monsters.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble With Peace

“A bank with a reputation for mercy is like a whore with a reputation for chastity – one fears they won’t get the job done.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble With Peace

“have often said that life is the misery we endure between disappointments.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble With Peace

“The dead save me from the fucking young.’ ‘No getting away from ’em, sadly,’ muttered Clover. ‘The older you get, the more of ’em there are.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble With Peace

“Sooner or later, you have to stop expecting folk to bend around your plans and fit your plans to the folk you’ve got.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble With Peace

“In war, you seize all the high ground you can.’ He lifted the egg to his lips, looking small between his big finger and thumb. ‘Except the moral kind.’ And he sucked the insides out through the hole. ‘That ain’t worth shit.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble With Peace

“But a man lost in the desert, as the Gurkish say, must take such water as he is offered.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble With Peace

“Maybe’s a game with no winners.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble With Peace

“But being a bastard was crime and punishment both.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Great Leveller

“Nice things, morals, but prone to chafe at times like this.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Great Leveller

“Money is a different thing to every man, Bialoveld wrote, but always a good thing.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Great Leveller

“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness”
― Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold

“When God means to punish a man, the Kantic scriptures say, he sends him stupid friends, and clever enemies.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Great Leveller