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Quotes from Bleak Seasons — Glen Cook

born 1944 United States

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The world sure isn’t kind to the man who tries to be gentle and thoughtful.

Bleak Seasons (1996)

You can blame a wizard for anything and people will believe you.

Bleak Seasons (1996)

I guess you don’t need to agree on everything to be lovers.

Bleak Seasons (1996)

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)

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)

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)

Fickle folk. A little hunger and stress and they forgot all about liberty.

Bleak Seasons (1996)

For once he was as serious as a spear through the gut.

Bleak Seasons (1996)

He talks big about his goddess getting involved but I won’t count on that. I’ve never seen the gods actually take a hand in mortal affairs.

Bleak Seasons (1996)

And there is no time. There is a war on.
Always there is a war on.

Bleak Seasons (1996)

You are a hired sword. A soldier. You should not be playing philosophical games. Not even with yourself.

Bleak Seasons (1996)

I heard Mather’s blather but it did not register as sense. I uttered, “Tooga ain’t no crazier than any other religion around here.”
That seemed to offend everyone equally.
Good.

Bleak Seasons (1996)

Attribution

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