Author: Joe Abercrombie

Cites

• attributed to Odin (1)
  • IN: Half A War (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The man who stands at a strange threshold should be cautious before he cross it. Glance this way and that who knows beforehand what foes may sit awaiting him in the hall?
    FROM: Havamal, (None), Poem, Scandinavia
• NULL (3)
  • IN: Half A King (None) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Better gear Than good sense A traveller cannot carry
    FROM: Havamal, the speech of the High One, (None), Poem, Scandinavia
  • IN: Half the World (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Cattle die, Kindred die, Every man is mortal: But I know one thing That never dies, The glory of the great deed.
    FROM: Hamaval, (None), Poem, Norwegian
  • IN: Half A War (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The man who stands at a strange threshold Should be cautious before he cross it, Glance this way and that: Who knows beforehand what foes may sit Awaiting him in the hall?
    FROM: Hávamál, the Speech of the High One, (None), NULL, Old Norse
• Paul Gauguin (1)
  • IN: Last Argument of Kings (2008) Fiction, Fantasy, British
    EPIGRAPH: Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge
    FROM: Avant et Après, (1923), Book, France
• Heinrich Heine (2)
  • IN: Before They are Hanged (2007) Fiction, Fantasy, British
    EPIGRAPH: We should forgive our enemies but not before they are hanged
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany
  • IN: Before They Are Hanged (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged."
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany
• Bertolt Brecht (1)
  • IN: The Heroes (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
    FROM: Life of Galileo, (1943), Play, Germany
• Montesquieu (1)
  • IN: The Heroes (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A rational army would run away.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Saying, France
• Will Rogers (1)
  • IN: The Heroes (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
    FROM: The Autobiography of Will Rogers, (1949), Book, US
• Robert E. Howard (1)
  • IN: The Heroes (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I'm not sure how much violence and butchery the readers will stand.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Conversation, US
• Mickey Mantle (1)
  • IN: The Heroes (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero and a goat.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Conversation, US