60 The Blade Itself Quotes by Joe Abercrombie

Joe Abercrombie’s fantasy novel ‘The Blade Itself’ is the first book in The First Law Trilogy.

Sand dan Glokta, a former war hero turned torturer for the Inquisition, is among the characters in the novel.

Here is a top collection of quotes from The Blade Itself novel.

The Blade Itself Quotes by Joe Abercrombie

“The ground must be a general’s best friend, or it becomes his worst enemy.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“Say one thing for Logen Ninefingers…” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“No one cares about the past any more,’ he whispered. ‘They don’t see that you can’t have a future without a past.’ How” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“Life – the way it really is – is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse’ Joseph” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“You have to learn to love the small things in life… you have to love the small things, when you’ve nothing else.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“You have to have fear to have courage.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“Why do big men tend to have such little brains? Perhaps they get by on brawn too often, and their minds dry up like plums in the sun.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“You carry on. That’s what he’d always done. That’s the task that comes with surviving, whether you deserve to live or not. You remember the dead as best you can. You say some words for them. Then you carry on, and you hope for better.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“The more you learn, the more you realize how little you know. Still, the struggle itself is worthwhile. Knowledge is the root of power, after all.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“Why do I do this?” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

Quotes from The Blade Itself

“Hurray’, shouted Glokta. ‘Porridge again!’He looked over at the motionless Practical. ‘Porridge and honey, better than money, everything’s funny, with porridge and honey!” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“Something dug into the Bloody-Nine’s back, but there was no pain. It was a sign. A message in a secret tongue, that only he could understand. It told him where the next dead man was standing.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“Clean. Living. Captain.’ ‘Yes, Marshal Varuz,’ mumbled Jezal. Six hours later he was drunker than shit.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“Water dripping from his slapping fruits” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“The tongueless torturer and the flower of chivalry. An unlikely alliance.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“Once you’ve got a task to do, it’s better to do it than live with the fear of it.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“That got him thinking about his life. It seemed a bitter, pointless sort of life now. No one was any better off because of it. Full of violence and pain, with not much but disappointment and hardship in between.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

Famous The Blade Itself Quotes

“Hard words are for fools and cowards.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“It’s hard to stay calm when you’re terrified, helpless, alone, at the mercy of men with no mercy at all.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“The seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“History is littered with dead good men.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“These are dangerous times alright, and yet danger and opportunity often walk hand in hand.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“There was nothing to be gained by losing his temper. There was never anything to be gained by that.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“Broken hearts heal with time, but broken teeth never do.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“Broken hearts heal with time, but broken teeth never do. Glokta” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“One body might just be a coincidence. Two make a conspiracy.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“Pardon me,’ said Glokta, wiping his running eye with a finger, ‘but I spent two years in the Emperor’s prisons. I daresay, if I had known I’d be there half that long at the start, I would have made a more concerted effort to kill myself.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

Best Blade Itself Quotes by Joe Abercrombie

“Body found floating by the docks…” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“When he’d made it thirty strides or so Logen turned around and looked back. The pot was sitting forlorn by the lake, already filling up with rainwater. They’d been through a lot together, him and that pot. “Fare you well, old friend.” The pot did not reply.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“Some things have to be done. It’s better to do them, than to live with the fear of them.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“What a place. Glokta stifled a smile. It reminds me of myself, in a way. We both were magnificent once, and we both have our best days far behind us.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“If a man seeks to change the world, he should first understand it.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“He remembered other times and other campfires, when he had not been alone.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you have nothing else.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“You keep your wine in a paper bag, you shouldn’t be too upset when it leaks.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“Kill me?’ The Bloody-Nine laughed louder than ever. ‘I do the killing, fool!” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“Then, once he had eaten, he would ask the spirits for guidance. Their guidance was pretty useless, but the company would be welcome.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“Everything frightens me, and it’s well that it does. Fear is a good friend to the hunted, it’s kept me alive this long. The dead are fearless, and I don’t care to join them.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

Meaningful The Blade Itself Quotes

“A man doesn’t put on a mask unless he’s got some dark work in mind.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“The best steel doesn’t always shine the brightest.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“Different men have different ways, Logen had told him once, and you have to have fear to have courage.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“Damn, he was bored. It was a fact, he was only now beginning to realise, that the conversation of the drunk is only interesting to the drunk. A few glasses on wine can be the difference between finding a man a hilarious companion or an insufferable moron.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“Tell your father he must come himself. I do not waste my time on fools and younger sons. I am old fashioned in this. I like to talk to the horse’s head, not the horse’s arse.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“Men don’t fence for their King, or for their families, or for the exercise either, before you try that one on me. They fence for the recognition, for the glory. They fence for their own advancement. They fence for themselves. I should know.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“And here it is. That horrible, beautiful, stretched out moment between stubbing your toe and feeling the hurt. How long do I have before the pain comes? How bad will it be when it does?” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“The lowly squabble over trifles. The great wage secret wars for power and wealth, and they call it government. Wars of words, and tricks, and guile, but no less bloody for that.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“Well. What can we do, except try to do better?” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

Great Blade Itself Quotes

“But that was civilisation, so far as Logen could tell. People with nothing better to do, dreaming up ways to make easy things difficult.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“Life – the way it really is – is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse’ Joseph Brodsky” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“Straining and straining, getting nowhere, but unable to stop pushing in case the rock should fall and crush him. Meanwhile, arrogant bastards who were in just the same danger lazed on the slopes beside him saying, ‘Well, it’s not my rock.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“I’m trying to put things in the best light, but a turd’s a turd, whatever light it’s in!” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“The blade itself incites to deeds of violence” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“Repetition – the curse of the old.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“The more you learn, the more you realise how little you know. Still, the struggle itself is worthwhile. Knowledge is the root of power, after all.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“Hard words are for fools and cowards. Calder might have been both, but Logen was neither. If you mean to kill, you’re better getting right to it than talking about it. Talk only makes the other man ready, and that’s the last thing you want.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“You can’t become attached to things, not out here in the wild.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“Where d’you get the knife?” He wished he had one. “He gave it to me.” There was a crumpled shape in the shadows by the wall, the matting all around soaked with dark blood. “This way.” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

“Treat a man like a dog and sooner or later he’ll bite you,” ~ Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

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