226 quotes
We are not really a godless bunch. We are just the sort who ignore the gods—probably in the unconscious hope that the gods will not notice us.
She Is the Darkness (1997)
Death will find a way.
Even the gods must pass.
She Is the Darkness (1997)
He winced. “You’ll start a civil war.”
“Not if everybody behaves and minds his own business.”
“You don’t understand. Priests consider everything their business.”
Dreams of Steel (1990)
I felt wonderfully wicked. I always do when I frustrate overly powerful, responsible-to-no-one types who think all existence was created only for their pleasure and exploitation.
Soldiers Live (2000)
“I still got all my limbs and I’m still breathing.”
“Makes you a winner in the soldiering game.”
She Is the Darkness (1997)
Slick, Garrett. Remind me not to get on your wrong side. You’re so slick you’d slide uphill.
Sweet Silver Blues (1987)
This is what happens when you get old. You start thinking. Worse, you start telling everybody what you think.
Soldiers Live (2000)
Peace had broken out and was being enthusiastically exploited on the presumption that it could not possibly last.
Water Sleeps (1999)
Leadership tip: Sound confident even when you have no idea. Just do not make a habit of it. They will find you out.
Water Sleeps (1999)
His problem is, he gets an idea in his head and he can’t get it out if it’s wrong, no matter what evidence you hit him with.
Dreams of Steel (1990)
He had a distinct problem imagining minds working differently from his own.
She Is the Darkness (1997)
You can blame a wizard for anything and people will believe you.
Bleak Seasons (1996)
That was not an exaggeration, that was an outright fabrication.
She Is the Darkness (1997)
Bomanz had lived his lies so long he often lied to himself.
The White Rose (1985)
I guess you don’t need to agree on everything to be lovers.
Bleak Seasons (1996)
She had a full measure of youth’s indifference to the past.
Soldiers Live (2000)
It was a day ripped full-grown from the womb of despair.
Shadows Linger (1984)
I had a thought. That happens. So do lunar eclipses.
Cold Copper Tears (1988)
Sadly, after years of study, I realize that most history may pivot on personal considerations like that, not on the pursuit of ideals dark or shining.
Water Sleeps (1999)
I grinned. “The unwritten law of all armies, Captain. The lower ranks have the privilege of questioning the sanity and competence of their commanders. It’s the mortar holding an army together.”
The Black Company (1984)