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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c64eacb | Over coming days, when I sneaked down to the Buskin, he revealed everything recorded where he appears as the focal character. I do not think I have met many men who disgusted me more. Nastier | Glen Cook | ||
| b223cb9 | We gathered our things and began taking leave of camp followers who had trickled out from the city. Our animals and equipment would be their reward for faith and friendship. I spent a sad, gentle hour with a woman to whom I meant more than I suspected. We shed no tears and told one another no lies. I left her with memories and most of my pathetic fortune. She left me with a lump in my throat and a sense of loss not wholly fathomable. | Glen Cook | ||
| cd79122 | The Lady made a few gestures around Bomanz--who looked pretty moth-eaten--and said a few words in a language I did not understand. Why do sorcerers always use languages nobody understands? Even Goblin and One-Eye do it. Each has confided that he cannot follow the tongue the other uses. Maybe they make it up? | Glen Cook | ||
| 3db2051 | My name is Case. Philodendron Case. Thanks to my Ma. I've never even told Raven about that. That's why I joined the army. To get away from the kind of potato diggers that would stick a name like that on a kid. I had seven sisters and four brothers last time I got a head count. Every one is named after some damned flower. A girl named Iris or Rose, what the hell, hey? But I got a brother named Violet and another brother named Petunia. What k.. | Glen Cook | ||
| 663b34b | Madle named names. Some were on my list and some were not. Those that were not I assumed to be spear carriers. Tally had been well and reliably scouted. The last corpse went out. I gave Madle a small gold piece. He goggled. His customers regarded him with unfriendly eyes. I grinned. "For services rendered." Madle blanched, stared at the coin. It was a kiss of death. His patrons would think he had helped set the ambush. "Gotcha," I whispered.. | Glen Cook | ||
| d922eac | Lightning from a clear sky smote the Necropolitan Hill. | Glen Cook | ||
| 52c1ce1 | I had to search a moment before spotting the soft glow advancing along the aisles between enemy divisions. It surrounded a child on a big white horse, bearing a standard of red emblazoned with a white rose. | Glen Cook | ||
| 19c4e6e | They steal our yesterdays and leave us no youth but that of our children.... | Glen Cook | ||
| ef0f08d | The fugitive blew through a doorway. I was only two steps behind, but when I got there the door was closed and locked. I flung one granite shoulder against it. It gave about a thousandth of an inch. "You do it." Morley indicated Slither. "Stop whimpering, Garrett." "I dislocated everything but my ankle bones." Slither knocked on the door with his very large feet, smashing away numerous times before he risked his own tender shoulder. The doo.. | Glen Cook | ||
| 0de68f9 | One-Eye scowled at Goblin. "Keep it up, Barf Bag. You'll be grocery shopping with the turtles." What the hell did that mean? Some kind of obscure shop talk? But Goblin was as croggled as the rest of us. Grinning, One-Eye resumed gabbling with his relatives." | Glen Cook | ||
| 6ef0f88 | There is nothing so unreasonable and irrational and blind--and just plain silly-looking--as a man who works himself into an obsessive passion. | Glen Cook | ||
| fc33e8d | I admitted, "This might not have been one of my brighter ideas." "On the contrary. It confirms our suspicions that there's a greater interest in us than should be for simple travellers. They mean to use us." She was disturbed. "Welcome to life in the Black Company, sweetheart," I said. "Now you know why I'm cynical about lords and such. Now you know one of the feelings I've been trying to get across." "Maybe I get it. A little. I feel demea.. | Glen Cook | ||
| 1ed5321 | He surveyed his audience with that look of sublime solemnity only a drunk can muster. | Glen Cook | ||
| fa9aaa0 | can't get my people inside. These crackpots are abidingly paranoid. If a man has even a tenth part nonhuman blood, he's a breed and part of the problem. Never mind he might have been a war hero. The spiders spinning the web of hatred are sure humankind can be redeemed only through the extinction of the rest of the races. Even to the extreme of hunting down and expunging every drop of nonhuman blood. Otherwise us uniques might breed back to .. | Glen Cook | ||
| 58e0d48 | Oh, it's a soldier's life for me. Oh, the adventure and glory! It | Glen Cook | ||
| 6c333bd | an iron law of warfare. No matter how clever you are at finding a new tool, your opponent will come up with a counter long before that can possibly be convenient for you. | Glen Cook | ||
| 5bd122c | Little girls are twice as precious and innocent as little boys. I do not know a culture that does not make them that way. | Glen Cook | ||
| 0ce3135 | I have been told I always look at the dark underbelly of tomorrow. Possibly. You're less likely to be disappointed that way. | Glen Cook | ||
| e93987b | Singed," he said, assuming that air of phony dignity cats adopt after some particularly inept performance. Something like, "That's what I meant to do all along." | Glen Cook | ||
| 11d9359 | I am not religious. I cannot conceive of gods who would give a damn about humanity's frothy carryings-on. I mean, logically, beings of that order just wouldn't. | Glen Cook | ||
| 30bc1c5 | Wars are being fought every day, even where armies are not on the march. And wars within wars. And wars behind wars. | Glen Cook | ||
| 364a6de | But maybe there is a force for greater good, created by our unconscious minds conjoined, that becomes an independent power greater than the sum of its parts. | Glen Cook | ||
| f3db73b | their ideas on | Glen Cook | ||
| ea3c7fb | The river barge "Binkey's Sequin" reminded me of a shopkeeper's wife. She was middle-aged, middle class, a little run down, a little overweight, extremely stubborn and set in her ways, needing masterful coaxing and cajoling to get her to give her loving best, but also faithful and warm and unsinkably optimistic in her care for her children." | Glen Cook | ||
| 28bfa4f | There is no man so insecure as a bottom-level functionary in a sinecure he has held for a long time. | Glen Cook | ||
| 72cd38b | Order was what regular people wanted. Order and security were necessary before prosperity could take hold. The political crap, the who is going to be in charge, did not matter to most folks. | Glen Cook | ||
| 33f0d0c | What did we do today to frighten the world? | Glen Cook | ||
| b7efa2e | Part of winning is a downdeep certainty that, no matter how bad things look, a road to victory will open. | Glen Cook | ||
| ef5628e | I believe that the secret to becoming successful in life is taking it one step at a time, do not look at the challenge just concentrate on getting through each step at a time, learning from your mistakes as you go forward. By doing this, you will reach your goal. Remember, quitters never win and winners never quit. Also, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. | cookbooks cooking health making-whiteboards self-improvement superfoods writing-books writing-ebooks | Glen Goodrum | |
| 03c2473 | Smeds could see the shadow of the future. Get Old Man Fish and Timmy Locan to kype the spike. Get dumb old Smeds to croak them when they do. Then take the loot and walk. Who is Smeds going to complain to when he has the blood of two men on his hands? That would be just like Tully. Just like him. | Glen Cook | ||
| 0f69542 | Troublesome as females are when they step out of their proper roles as connivers, manipulators, gossips, backstabbers, and bearers and nurturers of the young, slaughtering them is not an acceptable form of chastisement. | Glen Cook | ||
| aca0bc0 | It is not good form to bicker with your superiors, however wrong they may be and however one-sided their determination of their superiority | Glen Cook | ||
| 3e083bf | Troll?" I squeaked. "Yes." "He's got jaws like a saber-tithed tooger. Soobertoothed teegar. The goddamned growly things with the fangs." | Glen Cook | ||
| 214bc2e | Oh, what women are here! | Anton Chekhov | ||
| c6ea86b | scruff of the neck and seat of the pants, and ran him out the door to the accompaniment of appropriate old-time remarks about seedy little army types who failed to acknowledge the natural superiority of their overlords, the Marines. | Glen Cook | ||
| 429bbbf | The first thing I saw was a mottled green face half a yard wide staring through the broken window. I said something intelligent like, "Gleep!" The face grinned. It was a groll, a hybrid of human, troll, and the Beast That Talks that is never named in polite company. I grinned back. Grolls are slow of wit and often quick of temper." | Glen Cook | ||
| 72ec9ae | My arguments were beginning to sound a little strained to me, too. I was in the position of a priest trying to sell religion. | Glen Cook | ||
| 6f64128 | There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. | Glen Cook | ||
| ab2db43 | More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way. Few villains think they are villains. | Glen Cook | ||
| 3b07ee0 | People don't want to be told to do right. They don't really want to do right. They want to do whatever they want--and whine that it's not fair, it's not their fault, when it comes time to pay the piper. | Glen Cook | ||
| c35bdcf | get in touch with the seamiest side of yourself. Pick a fantasy, one you wouldn't tell anyone about. One that makes you uncomfortable or embarrassed when you think about it. In the Tenderloin there's somebody who'll do it with you, for you, or to you, or somebody who'll let you watch if that's your need. Let your imagination run away. You can't think of anything somebody hasn't thought and done already. Hell, somebody's thought of something.. | Glen Cook | ||
| 4da1ec0 | The old general amazed himself. The woman amazed him even more. Sometime in the wee hours the exhausted boss general promised, "Tomorrow night again. Within the walls of Stormgard. Maybe in Stormshadow's own bed." She wanted to know the basis for his confidence. As time labored on she just got more awake and lively. But the old man fell asleep on her." | Glen Cook | ||
| 241288e | After Tolkien I went after C. S. Lewis. After Lewis, it was Lloyd Alexander. After them came Fritz Leiber, Roger Zelazny, Robert Howard, John Norman, Poul Anderson, David Eddings, Weis and Hickman, Terry Brooks, Elizabeth Moon, Glen Cook, and before | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3b89869 | Something he had heard some wise man say. About the three stages of empire, the three generations. First came the conquerers, unstoppable in war. Then came the administrators, who bound it all together into one apparently unshakable, immortal edifice. Then came the wasters, who knew no responsibility and squandered the capital of their inheritance upon | Glen Cook |