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Quotes from Soldiers Live — Glen Cook

born 1944 United States

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35 quotes

It looks like it fell out of the ugly tree and hit every single branch on the way down.

Soldiers Live (2000)

No world lacks its villains so self-confident that they don’t believe they can get the best end of a bargain with the darkness.

Soldiers Live (2000)

Against the years all men campaign in vain.

Soldiers Live (2000)

Generating rumors is one thing even the most inept armed force does exceedingly well.

Soldiers Live (2000)

“Used to be” is not worth the breeze on which it is scribbled.

Soldiers Live (2000)

I tend toward the cynical view where religion is concerned.

Soldiers Live (2000)

Hatreds seldom are constrained to rational scales.

Soldiers Live (2000)

But with royalty you never know. They think differently than real people. The real world never quite seems to reach them.

Soldiers Live (2000)

She—and I—were of an age now where we spent too much time wondering how things might have gone had we made a few different choices.

Soldiers Live (2000)

I’m an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different.

Soldiers Live (2000)

A sign of advancing age. You start obsessing about how much you have to get done in the time that you have left.

Soldiers Live (2000)

It proved to be much farther than I had hoped. It always is when you are running away.

Soldiers Live (2000)

Life with me and the Company has not been anything like happily ever after. Reality has a way of slow-roasting romance.

Soldiers Live (2000)

The thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.

Soldiers Live (2000)

Being an old cynic myself I have strong notions about the true value of human gratitude. It is a currency whose worth plunges by the hour.

Soldiers Live (2000)

All is not lost. But neither is it found.

Soldiers Live (2000)

There are, of course, a thousand sophistries spewed by those who wish to deny individuals the opportunity to choose. Which is an arrogant presumption of a divine scale.

Soldiers Live (2000)

It was the wee hours of the morning, when even the heartbeat of the world had trouble thumping on.

Soldiers Live (2000)

If I had my druthers I’d be twenty-three years old for the rest of my life. Which would last another three thousand years.

Soldiers Live (2000)

I felt wonderfully wicked. I always do when I frustrate overly powerful, responsible-to-no-one types who think all existence was created only for their pleasure and exploitation.

Soldiers Live (2000)

Attribution

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