226 quotes
Simple minds respond to simple answers.
Shadows Linger (1984)
The road can blunt the most iron will.
The Silver Spike (1989)
The Radisha kicked over a pile of books. “I’ve never felt so powerless. I don’t like the feeling.”
Smoke shrugged. “Welcome to the world where the rest of us live.”
Shadow Games (1989)
Man, woman and child, the people of Shadowcatch were privy to the one true secret of the universe: there is always a darker shadow lurking beyond the one whose face you can see.
Bleak Seasons (1996)
He hadn’t been religious. He’d believed that death was it. When you died you were dead, like a squished bug or drowned rat, and your immortality was in the minds of those you left behind.
Dreams of Steel (1990)
He had learned self-control in a hard school. He had been married for thirty years.
The Silver Spike (1989)
She was not listening. If she listened she would have to hear uncomfortable truths.
Soldiers Live (2000)
“I know what I’m doing.”
You usually think you do. Occasionally you are correct.
Bitter Gold Hearts (1988)
The poor idiot is a living testimonial to the fact that everything takes longer and costs more. Even magic can’t get you around that.
Bleak Seasons (1996)
The sky? Dark as the inside of a priest’s heart, isn’t it?
Bleak Seasons (1996)
I did not reflect on what my response, as Captain, would have been toward an underling with my present attitude. The Words Immortal are: That Was Different.
Soldiers Live (2000)
The list of cities lost was long and disheartening, even granting exaggeration by the reporters. Soldiers defeated always overestimate the strength of their foe. That soothes egos suspecting their own inferiority.
The Black Company (1984)
Really? It made a crazy sense. Maybe perfect sense to somebody in the religion business.
Cold Copper Tears (1988)
But, no. It was too late. Fortune’s die was cast. The cruel game had to be played to its end, no matter what anyone wanted.
Soldiers Live (2000)
Nobody had any ideas. The questions just sort of lay there like dead fish too ripe to be ignored and too big to shove out of the way.
The Silver Spike (1989)
Nobody knew what the Company wanted. Various witnesses assigned motives according to their own fears. Few came anywhere near the mark.
Shadows Linger (1984)
Suvrin had a little too much of the politician in him. Too much of the kind of mind willing to let an individual go so the rest will not be inconvenienced.
Soldiers Live (2000)
Good morning. I’m honored but I’m also pressed for time. If you have something to discuss please get to the point. I’m an hour behind schedule and didn’t budget time for socializing.
Dreams of Steel (1990)
She wasn’t satisfied with the way things turned out. What the hell can you do with women? You can give them exactly what they ask for and they’ll cuss you because that ain’t what they really want.
The Silver Spike (1989)
I won’t bore you with their dogma. It’s repulsive and I’m not sure it was related to me truthfully.
Dreams of Steel (1990)