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Quotes from Bitter Gold Hearts — Glen Cook

born 1944 United States

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14 quotes

You get paranoid in this business. But maybe paranoids get that way because of all the people out to get them.

Bitter Gold Hearts (1988)

Time was the enemy never to be conquered and there were no reserves to help stay the tide.

Bitter Gold Hearts (1988)

Even when you have your mind made up, you can’t stay blind to reality forever.

Bitter Gold Hearts (1988)

I’m tempted to invoke penalties on the lot and let the gods distinguish between the wicked and the merely incompetent.

Bitter Gold Hearts (1988)

“You’re a cynical and suspicious character, Garrett.”
“It’s people like you who make me that way.”

Bitter Gold Hearts (1988)

“I’m not accustomed to disobedience.”
“You are to get out into the real world more. You’d get in practice real fast.”

Bitter Gold Hearts (1988)

You don’t alter the past, turn the tide, or change yourself by brooding about your hidden motives. You will surprise yourself every time, anyway. Nobody ever figures out why.

Bitter Gold Hearts (1988)

Often all we need to be civil with one another is the presence of a referee we don’t want thinking us fools.

Bitter Gold Hearts (1988)

His big crime was stupidity compounded by godlessness.

Bitter Gold Hearts (1988)

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)

“I know what I’m doing.”
You usually think you do. Occasionally you are correct.

Bitter Gold Hearts (1988)

“Don’t even think about it, horse. I have friends in the glue business. Get up.”
They got. Unlike women, you can show horses who is boss.

Bitter Gold Hearts (1988)

We like to know that our guests are out when they head out. Some of them are so slow they might not remember which side of the door they’re supposed to be on when it shuts.

Bitter Gold Hearts (1988)

“You should forget Ami. I’m much more interesting.”
In that instance I decided she was wrong. Amiranda Crest was a woman. This one wore a woman’s body but the creature inside was spoiled, vain, snobbish, and probably not very bright.

Bitter Gold Hearts (1988)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Glen Cook (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.