226 quotes
The runt seemed awfully reasonable for a supposed raving fanatic. I guess the first talent a priest develops is acting ability.
Cold Copper Tears (1988)
All is not lost. But neither is it found.
Soldiers Live (2000)
There are, of course, a thousand sophistries spewed by those who wish to deny individuals the opportunity to choose. Which is an arrogant presumption of a divine scale.
Soldiers Live (2000)
It was the wee hours of the morning, when even the heartbeat of the world had trouble thumping on.
Soldiers Live (2000)
He had gained all the power he had dreamed of then—and had not known a moment of peace since.
She Is the Darkness (1997)
Public works which did not serve the rich and powerful had a way of dying of neglect.
The Silver Spike (1989)
The world sure isn’t kind to the man who tries to be gentle and thoughtful.
Bleak Seasons (1996)
Somebody a lot smarter than me once said, “Put no trust in wizards.”
She Is the Darkness (1997)
She wanted to be crazy. She said when you’re crazy the truth is whatever you want it to be. She wanted what she remembered not to be true.
Cold Copper Tears (1988)
Not dangerous at all. Not even that lucky. But a sufficiently paranoid mind will discern patterns and threats where only fortune has conspired.
Water Sleeps (1999)
His big crime was stupidity compounded by godlessness.
Bitter Gold Hearts (1988)
He is blind to the dead, to the burning villages, to the starving children. As is the Rebel. Two blind armies, able to see nothing but one another.
The Black Company (1984)
Already some who never questioned have begun to wonder if all religion isn’t just a shell game perpetrated by societies of con men who milk the gullible.
Cold Copper Tears (1988)
Consider little children. There are not many of them not cute and lovable and precious, sweet as whipped honey and butter. So where do all the wicked people come from?
The Black Company (1984)
Oh, ‘twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey.
Shadows Linger (1984)
You might have noticed that the human animal is fond of forming and clinging to prejudices, remaining their steadfast curator in the face of all reason and contradiction.
Water Sleeps (1999)
Evil is relative, Annalist. You can’t hang a sign on it. You can’t touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.
The Black Company (1984)
Every revelation slashes Belief with a brutal razor. Already some who never questioned have begun to wonder if all religion isn’t just a shell game perpetrated by societies of con men who milk the gullible.
Cold Copper Tears (1988)
If I had my druthers I’d be twenty-three years old for the rest of my life. Which would last another three thousand years.
Soldiers Live (2000)
I took nothing at face. Everywhere I turned religion popped up, and that’s a game of masks and deceit and illusions if ever there was one.
Cold Copper Tears (1988)