Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.

- Joe Abercrombie

That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking …

- Joe Abercrombie

What’s the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same uniform as you? A crime. A mu…

- Joe Abercrombie

Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.

- Joe Abercrombie

Have a smile for breakfast, you'll be shitting joy by lunch.

- Joe Abercrombie

You should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.

- Joe Abercrombie

Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.

- Joe Abercrombie

Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especia…

- Joe Abercrombie

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them.

- Joe Abercrombie