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Quotes from The Silver Spike — Glen Cook

born 1944 United States

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I’ve always known people for whom a goal was everything, who never thought nothing about the consequences of the goal achieved.

The Silver Spike (1989)

Raven muttered, “You don’t have to be brilliant to be a god.”

The Silver Spike (1989)

He couldn’t handle what it meant to have somebody in love with you. Running away was the only thing he knew how to do.

The Silver Spike (1989)

Public works which did not serve the rich and powerful had a way of dying of neglect.

The Silver Spike (1989)

Smeds did not give a rat’s ass who ran things as long as they left him alone. Most people felt that way.

The Silver Spike (1989)

The road can blunt the most iron will.

The Silver Spike (1989)

He had learned self-control in a hard school. He had been married for thirty years.

The Silver Spike (1989)

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)

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)

Smeds did not like it. It was getting complicated. He did not like things complicated. Trying to untangle them usually made things worse.

The Silver Spike (1989)

Bomanz could not get away from the bird, who, if he had been human, would have hung out in taverns masquerading as the world’s foremost authority, armed with an uninformed and ready opinion on every conceivable subject. His cheerful bigotry and who-cares ignorance drove the old man’s temper to its limit.

The Silver Spike (1989)

Attribution

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