Half a King is my favorite book by Joe Abercrombie so far, and that's saying something.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

To be awake is the refreshness of being.

I like to think I'm helping them by hating them. I'm reminding them that they aren't God's gift to humankind.

Just for a moment, amid all the bad stuff, this was a happy place again.

A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.

I've always lived in a city.

The life of a working model in L.A. kind of sucks.

Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true.

It breaks my heart when couples focus more on being wed than being married. Two become one doesn't happen without work, humility, and sacrifice.

I don’t believe in all this public-funded health care, we can’t afford it. If you want health care, you pay for it.

The practical joke is the psychiatry of baseball.