Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold Quotes

A man can forgive all manner of faults in beautiful women that in ugly men he find entirely beyond sufferance

Some men laugh easily. It makes them winning dinner companions.

You look especially beautiful this morning, Monza."That brought a smile to the corner of her mouth. The corner he couldn't see. "Well. Facts are facts.

I've made peace with myself.Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win.Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting.

To have a good enemy, choose a friend: he knows where to strike.

Mercy and cowardice are the same, " she snapped out. "But you want their land, not their lives, no? Dead men can't obey.

It was what you gave out that made a man, not what you got back.

Bravery is the dead man’s virtue.

I apologise, your Highness. Murder can be a painful business.

Every war carries within it the seeds of the next.

Memories sharp enough to cut himself on - the smells, the sounds, the feel of the air on his skin, the desperate hope and mad anger.

Men are brittle, I reckon. They don't bend into new shapes. They get broken into them. Crushed into them.

Are you entirely sure of that knot?' asked Morveer. 'There is no place in the plan for a lengthy drop'.'Twenty-eight strides', said Friendly.'What?''The drop'.A brief pause, 'That is not helpful'.

A set of huge marble busts stared smugly down from on high: great merchants and financiers of Styrian history, by the look of them. Criminals made heroes by colossal success.

Enough pain makes a coward of anyone.

One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great things.

The world is all change, my friend. We all would like to go back, but the past is done. We must look forwards. We must change ourselves, however painful it may be, or be left behind.