Sharp Ends Quotes

“Welcome to my life of constant doubt, anxiety and occasional sudden and unpredictable horror, Javre. I hope you enjoy your fucking visit.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Sharp Ends

“His ability was exceeded only by his belief in his own ability.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Sharp Ends

“Men. The one thing that interests me not at all.’
‘You should try them.’
‘I did. Once. Bloody useless. Like trying to have a conversation with someone who doesn’t even speak your language, let alone understand the topic.’
‘Some are certainly more horizontally fluent than others.’
‘No. Just no. The hairiness, and the lumpiness, and the great big fumbling fingers and… balls. I mean, balls. What’s that about? That is one singularly unattractive piece of anatomy. That is just… that is bad design, is what that is.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Sharp Ends

“the greater a man's power swells, the smaller his good quantities shrivel”
― Joe Abercrombie, Sharp Ends

“There’s always a worse case than your worst case, and more often than not, it happens.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Sharp Ends

“It is easy to speak of the past, impossible to go there.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Sharp Ends

“In bloody days, swords were worth more than gods.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Sharp Ends

“I saw two Northmen. One was reading a book.’ ‘Really? A book?’ Friendly shrugged. ‘There are readers everywhere.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Sharp Ends

“A good thief goes unseen. A truly great one merely goes unnoticed. She”
― Joe Abercrombie, Sharp Ends

“Madam, I’m a soldier. The last thing I want is a fight.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Sharp Ends

“If you want to be a fine new person with a fine new life you’ve got to put the person you were behind you, like a snake sheds its skin. You’ve got to stop picking through your hoard of hurts and grievances like a miser with his coins, set ’em down and allow yourself to go free. You’ve got to forgive and you’ve got to trust, not because anyone else deserves it, but because you do.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Sharp Ends

“Surprise is like virginity. You only get the one chance at using it, and that normally turns out a crushing disappointment”
― Joe Abercrombie, Sharp Ends

“No. Just no. The hairiness, and the lumpiness, and the great big fumbling fingers and … balls. I mean, balls. What’s that about? That is one singularly unattractive piece of anatomy. That is just … that is bad design, is what that is”
― Joe Abercrombie, Sharp Ends

“Didn’t seem likely, but what’s the point of likely fantasies?”
― Joe Abercrombie, Sharp Ends

“the trouble with difficulties solved is that, so often, new difficulties present themselves soon after.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Sharp Ends

“Without rules, every man stands alone, owning only what he can tear from the world with one hand and grip with the other. Chaos.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Sharp Ends

“A good thief goes unseen. A truly great one merely goes unnoticed.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Sharp Ends

“what’s the point of likely fantasies?”
― Joe Abercrombie, Sharp Ends

“She who takes the credit also takes the blame.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Sharp Ends

“A problem left behind was just the same as a problem solved.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Sharp Ends

“But it was easier to lie than to have the hard conversation. Much easier.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Sharp Ends

“But the sad fact was, only the winners got to regret what they did in a fight,”
― Joe Abercrombie, Sharp Ends

“It’s a fine line between too much drama and too little, isn’t it, though?”
― Joe Abercrombie, Sharp Ends

“But it is easy to speak of the past, impossible to go there.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Sharp Ends

“A man in the desert must take such water as he is offered, after all.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Sharp Ends

“When there is no law, there is no crime.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Sharp Ends

“In hard times, soft thoughts can kill you quicker than the plague.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Sharp Ends

“There’s no style of contempt like the stuff one kind of savage has for another, Craw guessed.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Sharp Ends

“Cleverness, caution and plans will only get a thief so far. Then luck’s a treacherous bitch and won’t always play along, so boldness will have to take you the rest of the way.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Sharp Ends

“How old are you? Nineteen?’ ‘Twenty-one.’ Though she sometimes felt a hundred. ‘I’m blessed with a youthful glow.’ ‘Still far too young to retire.’ ‘I’m about the right age,’ said Shev. ‘Still alive.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Sharp Ends