“One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great things.” PainSufferingFantasyAchievementGrow Book:Best Served Cold Source: Best Served Cold
“Men are brittle, I reckon. They don't bend into new shapes. They get broken into them. Crushed into them.” FantasyJoe AbercrombieThe First Law Book:Best Served Cold Source: Best Served Cold
“Monza never had understood why getting out a tit or two made for a better painting. But painters seemed to think it did, so tits is what you got.” FantasyJoe AbercrombieThe First Law Book:Best Served Cold Source: Best Served Cold
“The memories of our glories fade, and rot away into half-arsed anecdotes, thin and unconvincing as some other bastard's lies. The failures, the disappointments, the regrets, they stay raw as the moments they happened.” FantasyJoe AbercrombieThe First Law Book:Best Served Cold Source: Best Served Cold
“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.” FantasyJoe AbercrombieThe First Law Book:Best Served Cold Source: Best Served Cold
“Savor the little moments, that’s my advice. They’re what life is. All the little things that happen while you’re waiting for something else.” FantasyGrimdarkJoe Abercrombie Book:The Heroes Source: The Heroes