“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.

— Glen Cook Shadow Games (1989)

More quotes by Glen Cook

Sweet Silver Blues (1987)

The Silver Spike (1989)

Dreams of Steel (1990)

Shadow Games (1989)

Cold Copper Tears (1988)

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Glen Cook (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.