226 quotes
I have a statistic I want you to consider, Garrett. Of all the guys who have loved her, only one is still alive.
Sweet Silver Blues (1987)
One’s own yesterday is a ghost that will not be laid. Death is the only exorcism.
The White Rose (1985)
You know you’re getting old when everything aggravates you.
The White Rose (1985)
Exact words were of no consequence. At heart the squabble was as old as humanity itself, fug-headed antiques locking horns with omniscient youth.
Soldiers Live (2000)
I said, “I am a soldier, grown old and tired and confused. I have been fighting since before you were born. And I have yet to see anything gained.”
The White Rose (1985)
I must be alive. Otherwise I wouldn’t hurt so much.
Water Sleeps (1999)
I started to express my incredulity, but it struck me that I might learn a little more a lot faster with my mouth shut. I admit I don’t often have these epiphanies.
Bitter Gold Hearts (1988)
Like most warlords he doesn’t let reality get in the way of his doing whatever he wants to do.
Bleak Seasons (1996)
Rage is a red, near-animate force, as bloated with compassion as a starving serpent.
Bleak Seasons (1996)
Ah, child. What are we without friends? Just severed heads rolling across the sands.
I didn’t know him. That was all right. There are a lot of people I don’t know, but I wondered if he was one of the ones I wanted to keep on not knowing.
Cold Copper Tears (1988)
Old folks called the winter a harbinger of worse to come. But old folks always see today’s weather as more harsh than that of yore. Or milder. Never, never the same.
The White Rose (1985)
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?
The White Rose (1985)
The soldiers stumbled forward doggedly, cursing the bite of the wind while reminding one another that generals are seldom of sound mind and unbesmirched ancestry. They would not be generals if they were.
She Is the Darkness (1997)
No captive was smart enough to speak a language any of us knew. Talking loud or slow did not help.
Bone Eaters (2015)
Smeds did not give a rat’s ass who ran things as long as they left him alone. Most people felt that way.
The Silver Spike (1989)
My apprentices were exasperating. They were competing to see who was laziest.
Bone Eaters (2015)
There was one temporal power greater than the greatest sorcery. Greed.
Soldiers Live (2000)
There were too many secret things going on. And too many perfectly banal, openmouthed evils driven by ambition or fanaticism distracting everyone from the creeping apocalypse.
Lord of the Silent Kingdom (2007)
I did not expect them to try anything but I am alive at my age because I make a habit of being ready for trouble when it seems most unlikely.
Soldiers Live (2000)