John > John's Quotes

“Silence is a warrior’s best armour, the saying goes. Hard looks and hard words have never won a battle yet, but they’ve lost a few.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged

“But that’s what war is. A lot of folk getting killed that don’t deserve it.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“it was better to do it, than to live with the fear of it.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“I did a good thing, and so, of course, there is a price to be paid.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“Even for me. There’s nothing like the company of someone even more wretched than yourself to make you feel better. Trouble is, take their misery away and your own presses in twice as cold and dreary behind it.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“But you can’t truly hate a man without loving him first,”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“Better to do it,’ Logen whispered under his breath, ‘than live with the fear of it.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“a man who doesn’t keep his word isn’t much of a man at all.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“Jezal was beginning to doubt that anyone in a position of high authority ever really knew what they were doing. The best one could hope for was to maintain some shred of an illusion that one might.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“Round and round in circles we go, clutching at successes that we never grasp, endlessly tripping over the same old failures. Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“That’s the trouble with ambition. It’s easy to forget, when you’re always looking upwards, that the only way down from the dizzy heights is a long drop.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“Then you ought to know you can’t offload responsibility on someone else. You have to be able to take care of yourself when shit goes down.”
― Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

“Monotony is boring, and besides, as the ancients loved to point out, expectations of what could be or what should be are the most common sources of our discontent. Expectations lead to disappointment, and disappointment leads to anger and resentment.”
― Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

“Too often we don’t appreciate the value of something until it has slipped our grasp.”
― Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars