Quotes by Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes

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The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick. — Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes
He is dead and I, the self serving coward that I am, still live. Life is not fair. There is no pattern. People die at ra — Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes
Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from — Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes
Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud. — Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes
Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter. — Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes
I'm a fucking coward.""Maybe." Craw jerked his thumb over his shoulder at Whirrun's corpse. "There's a hero. Tell me who — Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes
This is stupid.""Look. You think how stupid people are most of the time. Old men drink. Women at a village fair. Boys th — Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes
So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You're a hero. — Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes
He looked around at that one room, and the few things in it. He'd always thought retiring would be going back to his lif — Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes
Remember, though, that you are the king's observer, not the king's champion. — Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes
...Chief without soldiers is just a very lonely man in a big bloody field — Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes
Whirrun ignored ‘em. ‘Then, when I’ve got two cut,’ and he dropped a pale slab of cheese on one slice then slapped the o — Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes
Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit. — Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes
The man is a monster. The worst I have ever seen, in fact, since I last looked in the mirror. The truth? I am rotting to — Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes
What’s the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same — Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes