9 quotes
Never underestimate the power of human ingratitude.
Shadow Games (1989)
Willow, if the gods thought half as much of you as you think of yourself, you’d be king of the world.
Shadow Games (1989)
I was learning that part of a captain’s job is to delegate. Maybe genius lies in choosing the right person for the right task.
Shadow Games (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)
I began to back away.
This is how I handle my women. Duck for cover when they get distressed.
Shadow Games (1989)
Trouble came only where I expected it, from One-Eye, whose motto is that anything not nailed down is his and anything he can pry loose isn’t nailed down.
Shadow Games (1989)
That damned rain had a personal grudge. It got no heavier but it never let up. Yet to east and west I saw light that indicated clear skies in those directions. The gods, if such existed, were laying on the misery especially for me.
Shadow Games (1989)
I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled toward absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world. And that opinion becomes more important than all our sneaky, sleazy schemes of greed, lust, self-aggrandizement, whatever we are up to while lying the world into believing we are just plain nice folks.
Shadow Games (1989)
“Given time we would have become less than indispensable and you would have started looking around for a way to shaft us instead of doing the honorable thing and paying us off and simply terminating our commission.”
“That’s what I love about you, Croaker. Your unflagging faith in humanity.”
“Absolutely. Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent,” I grumped.
Shadow Games (1989)